"I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing."
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"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."
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"I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled."
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"I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them."
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"But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible."
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"Evil to some is always good to others"
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"to hope was to expect"
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"But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power."
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"You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."
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"Is not poetry the food of love?"
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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever."
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"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
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"When I fall in love, it will be forever."
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"I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable."
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"Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to."
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"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
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"Sense will always have attractions for me."
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"She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind."
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"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
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"Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible."
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