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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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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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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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Each found her greatest safety in silence.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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When money is once parted with, it can never return.

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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Sense will always have attractions for me.

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