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"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
"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."
"Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves."
"Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
"A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself."
"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
"There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible."
"Till this moment I never knew myself."
"Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
"I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such."
"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."
"Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."
"We are all fools in love."
"How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind."
"I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?"
"“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”"
"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word."