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Run mad as often as you choose but do not faint

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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 is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet

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

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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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

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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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 tak...more

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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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Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and...more

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.