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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel i...more

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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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After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfei...more

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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on r...more

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Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being inter...more

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent ...more

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Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) ...more

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It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood wi...more

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...more

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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.