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The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

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There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

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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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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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