"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
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"They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects."
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"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
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"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
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"Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."
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"Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
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"From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
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"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air."
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"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."
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"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
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"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
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"The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it."
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"She is loveliness itself."
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"Those who do not complain are never pitied."
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"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
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"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
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"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him."
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