"I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it."
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"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
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"One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
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"people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them"
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"You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
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"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
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"The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship"
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"An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
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"Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."
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"There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help."
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"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
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"We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."
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"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
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"I want nothing but death."
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"If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?"
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"I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both."
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"A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
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"Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be."
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"She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped."
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"Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations."
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