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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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With a book, he was regardless of time.

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance o...more

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With a book he was regardless of time...

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured hers...more

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not s...more

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to ...more

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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...more

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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I bel...more

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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that...more

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...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

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The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if rea...more