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

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I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well for a novel." Such is the commo...more

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of hum...more

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickle...more

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I sha...more

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Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured hers...more

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured ...more

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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...more