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the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

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What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

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What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

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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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You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature...more

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By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woma...more

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.