"Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition."
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"The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart"
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"Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give."
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"My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire."
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters."
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"Time did not compose her."
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"I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness."
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"Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business."
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"You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing."
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"Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."
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"[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible."
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"Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present"
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"It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
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"If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure."
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"I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant."
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"A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
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"An annuity is a very serious business."
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"Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook."
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"Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever."
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"Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible."
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