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| One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. | |
| Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well | |
| Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody | |
| At present, I know him so well, that I think him really handsome; or at least, almost so. | |
| The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men | |
| Harriet Smith, therefore, one whom she could summon at any time to a walk, would be a valuable addition to her privileges | |
| Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again. | |
| Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. | |
| She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning. | |
| I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry. | |
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| When he was present she had no eyes for any one else. Every thing he did, was right. Every thing he said, was clever. | |
| The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. | |
| Without studying the business, however, or knowing what he was about, Edmund was beginning, at the end of a week of such intercourse, to be a good deal in love | |
| A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. | |
| In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection, and though her intentions did not vary for an instant, she was at fi | |
| Yes, my dear Catherine, it is so indeed; your penetration has not deceived you. - Oh! that arch eye of yours! - It sees through every thing. | |
| If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. —You hear nothing but truth from me | |
| But there is one comfort, my dear Miss Marianne; he is not the only young man in the world worth having; and with your pretty face you will never want admirers. | |
| A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment | |
| Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like | |
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