"Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table."
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"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber."
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"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
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"A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other."
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"Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other."
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"I should not mind anything at all."
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"It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering."
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"I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad."
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"Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"I would much rather have been merry than wise."
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"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."
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"Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation."
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"An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome."
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"I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me."
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"I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown."
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"Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
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"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"
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"Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle."
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"I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness."
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