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

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Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes--and she listened to...more

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the rent here may be low but i believe we have it on very hard terms --sense & sensibility

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Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you...more

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−inform...more

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Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.