"A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world."
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"But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]"
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"I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love"
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"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
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"For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?"
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"To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind"
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"To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well."
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"The sooner every party breaks up the better."
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"May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly."
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"I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also."
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"And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business."
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"...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall."
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"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
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"If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it."
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"It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition."
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"An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment."
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"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone."
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"My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?"
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"Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book."
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"Women are the only correspondents to be depended on."
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