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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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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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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

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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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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

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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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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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