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Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery...more

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Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) ...more

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I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good b...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happ...more

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only...more

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood wi...more

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Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehe...more

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Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subseq...more

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English languag...more

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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequ...more

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations;...more

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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the bles...more

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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…