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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

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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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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

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We are all fools in love.

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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

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Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

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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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