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Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberat...more

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I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinio...more

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But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered un...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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Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and...more

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

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You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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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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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.