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Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

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If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice wit...more

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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day ...more

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It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom He...more

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One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your broth...more