There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet
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It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
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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...
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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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...
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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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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...
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be tak...
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
