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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
"If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth"
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
"It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
"a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act."
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous."
"There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."
"They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
"Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking."
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!"
"How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant."