"It's such a happiness when good people get together."
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"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
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"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
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"But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."
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"You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
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"One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight."
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"My sore throats are always worse than anyone's."
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"I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy."
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"I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
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"but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
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"Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
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"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am."
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"What strange creatures brothers are!"
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