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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

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The less said the better.

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

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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