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…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mis...more

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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adhe...more

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent ...more

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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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It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the l...more

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth...more

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Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I ...more

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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civ...more

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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.