"It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love."
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"Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?"
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"What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self."
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"He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly"
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"No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect."
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"And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question."
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"The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking."
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"There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted."
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"I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other."
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"I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him."
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"When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result."
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"Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me."
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"Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!"
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"If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues."
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"Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship"
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"My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will."
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"You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike."
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"God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us."
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"My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can."
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"No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise."
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