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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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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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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room t...more

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted...more

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And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured ...more

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If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to-- Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of th...more

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It's a truth universally acknowledged...

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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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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