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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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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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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I bel...more

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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that...more

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

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The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if rea...more

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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in wh...more

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I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It is really very well for a novel." Such is the commo...more

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filia...more

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of hum...more

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But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, bu...more

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To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot a...more

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Obstinate, headstrong girl!