"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
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"It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable."
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"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."
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"A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
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"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best"
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"Obstinate, headstrong girl!"
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"I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this."
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."
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"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
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"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."
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"The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human."
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"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
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"A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so."
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"Too many cooks spoil the broth"
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"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."
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"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
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"Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination."
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