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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

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My heart is, and always will be, yours.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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to hope was to expect

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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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