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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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There are secrets in all families.

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Sense will always have attractions for me.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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I have no talent for certainty.

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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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An annuity is a very serious business.

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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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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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We neither of us perform to strangers.

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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

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