"“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”"
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"In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other."
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"Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction."
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"it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa."
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"I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors."
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"There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough."
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"Time, time will heal the wound."
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"Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some"
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"If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right."
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"Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on."
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"I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes."
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"To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all."
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"I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages."
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"Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together."
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"I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know."
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"But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward."
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"Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play."
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"She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas."
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"We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions."
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"You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own."
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