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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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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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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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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

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

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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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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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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