"Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her."
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"I am all astonishment."
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"Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure."
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"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
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"There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion."
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"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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"..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself"
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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library."
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"Let us have the luxury of silence."
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"The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
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"Angry people are not always wise."
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"To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last."
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"A Woman never looks better than on horseback"
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"We do not suffer by accident."
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
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"I trust that absolutes have gradations."
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"I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth."
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"An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous."
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