"I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends."
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"I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
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"There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
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"Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood"
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"Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have."
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"Time will explain."
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"There are secrets in all families."
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"She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
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"Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable."
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"An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
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"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them."
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"Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces."
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"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."
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"And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months."
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"... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise."
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"The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!"
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"there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."
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"I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage."
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"One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound."
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"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
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