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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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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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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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