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- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set…
- It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
- 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…
- Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like…
- To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality…
- I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any…
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
- Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
- Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her…
- I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at…
- What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for…
- She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
- I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even…
- I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what…
- How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
- Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and…
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