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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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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

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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It's a truth universally acknowledged...

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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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[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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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