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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty f...more

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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel i...more

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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

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Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till ...more

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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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