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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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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.

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You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till ...more

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I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Con...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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The earliest intelligence of the travellers' safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been ...more

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...it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the c...more

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with...more

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Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And y...more

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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civ...more