"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
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"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
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"Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections."
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"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
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"But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give."
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"The less said the better."
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"With women, the heart argues, not the mind."
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
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"It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before."
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"Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different."
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"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
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"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
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"Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else."
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"I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
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"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
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"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
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"Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered."
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"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."
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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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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
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