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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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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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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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

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There are secrets in all families.

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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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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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