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Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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Only a novel"... 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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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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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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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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