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Time did not compose her.

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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their ...more

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortles...more

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Time will explain.

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But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived; ...more

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

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Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of ...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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I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.