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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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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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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...more

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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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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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the...more

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth...more

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

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I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked ...more

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of t...more

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my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for...more

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Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.