"Each found her greatest safety in silence."
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"Almost anything is possible with time"
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"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."
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"A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them."
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"How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"
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"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
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"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
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"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
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"I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive."
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"When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."
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"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."
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"We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us."
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"I can always live by my pen."
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"Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward."
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"I will only add, God bless you."
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"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
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"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."
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"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
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"I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not."
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