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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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

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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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