"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
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"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."
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"Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling."
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"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late."
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"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."
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"Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
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"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
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"I am excessively diverted."
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"Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn."
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"Arguments are too much like disputes."
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"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
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"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
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"Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business."
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"You have delighted us long enough."
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"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain."
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"I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him."
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"I have always maintained the importance of Aunts"
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