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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

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How can I dispose of myself with it?

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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

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Is not poetry the food of love?

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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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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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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When I fall in love, it will be forever.

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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

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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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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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