"Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation."
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"It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
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"What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh."
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"I have read your book, and I disapprove."
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"You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you."
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"A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."
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"I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
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"Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?"
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"To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love."
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"Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's."
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"To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle."
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"Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood"
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"She attracted him more than he liked."
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"No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else."
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"one day in the country is exactly like another."
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"Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
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"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched."
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"When money is once parted with, it can never return."
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"Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."
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"I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering."
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