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There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

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I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, ...more

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The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been ...more

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They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a ...more

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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to ...more

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope...more

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...more

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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. However little known the feeling...more

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Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

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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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For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.