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- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
- It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
- I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I…
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
- There are secrets in all families.
- The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for…
- I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every…
- All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
- You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little…
- it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all…
- There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more…
- I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I…
- From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected…
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