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If I was wrong in yielding to...

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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Personal size and mental sorr...

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

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She was heartily ashamed of h...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well?informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Goldsmith tells us, that when...

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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We all know him to be a proud...

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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that you seemed almost as fea...

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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I had a very pleasant evening...

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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And have you never known the ...

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, wi...

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 she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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Such squeamish youths as cann...

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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Lovely & too charming Fair on...

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

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Anne hoped she had outlived t...

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

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Woe betide him, and her too, ...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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The Very first moment I behel...

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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Is not general incivility the...

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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There is something so amiable...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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I am afraid that the pleasant...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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One does not love a place the...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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Self-knowledge is the first s...

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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Silly things do cease to be s...

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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