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I dearly love a laugh.

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But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. -- Gratitude, not...more

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that...more

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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

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However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one...more

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She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that ...more

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room t...more

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Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

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You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt ...more

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the...more