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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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I have read your book, and I disapprove.

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We do not suffer by accident.

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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

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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 am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

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Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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

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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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