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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy
... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.