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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

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I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

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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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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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