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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.

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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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I can always live by my pen.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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I am excessively diverted.

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

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From politics it was an easy step to silence.

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