"I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it."
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"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
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"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."
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"Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself."
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"The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing"
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"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley"
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"I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust."
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"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
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"On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse."
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"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
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"She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance."
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"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
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"A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."
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"Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted."
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"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
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"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
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"With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works."
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private."
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