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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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