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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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I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good b...more

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Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happ...more

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…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

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I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to...more

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations;...more

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He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the bles...more

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Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

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But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature...more

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…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.