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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

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Every savage can dance.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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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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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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