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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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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

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

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She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

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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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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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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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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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I do not cough for my own amusement.

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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

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