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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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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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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

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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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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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