Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, i...
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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a perso...
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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.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me...
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Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for...
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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
