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- It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that…
- Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
- The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself,…
- He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
- But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad…
- How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and…
- That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no…
- 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…
- You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for…
- She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though…
- if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as…
- He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
- I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would…
- But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind,…
- The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
- Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our…
- Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody…
- If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
- It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best
- I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of…
- One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
- A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
- If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
- You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
- I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my…
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