"To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity."
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"Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up."
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"I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage."
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"The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
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"What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind."
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"A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind."
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"The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more."
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"One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that."
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"I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden."
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"I should not mind anything at all."
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"she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart."
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"But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power."
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"Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible."
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"To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind"
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"Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book."
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"Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm."
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"Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered."
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"I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested."
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"A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."
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"Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
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