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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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I can always live by my pen.

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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