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

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, 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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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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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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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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