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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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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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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

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Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

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Arguments are too much like disputes.

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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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I want nothing but death.

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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. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

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