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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your e...more

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking ...more

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty f...more

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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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...more

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

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more