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Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet

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It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be tak...more

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...more

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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...it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the c...more