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It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

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Beware how you give your heart.

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

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

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