"She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it."
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"If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it."
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"She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced."
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"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
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"... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out."
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"People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour."
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"But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach."
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"To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like."
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"We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves."
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"Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death."
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"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them."
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"The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved."
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"You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."
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"Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered."
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"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
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"She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting."
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"Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise."
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"Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?"
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"All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes."
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"He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart."
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