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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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Till this moment I never knew myself.

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Faultless in spite of all her faults.

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

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I must have my share in the conversation.

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

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We neither of us perform to strangers.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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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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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

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