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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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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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Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and...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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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 had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her bro...more