"Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery...
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
~ Jane Austen ~
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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"He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.
"She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the bles...
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"You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature...
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
"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.
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.
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