"I love you. Most ardently."
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"Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret."
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"I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested."
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"the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year."
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"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall."
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"A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else."
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"From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."
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"About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income."
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"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)"
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"Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes."
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"To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
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"It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now."
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"She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
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"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . ."
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"Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not."
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"I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."
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"When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort."
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"You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."
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"…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before."
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"I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness."
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