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| 'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.' `Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.' | | Uncategorized | |
| . . . 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 books at all. | | Uncategorized | |
| . . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. | | Uncategorized | |
| A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. | | Uncategorized | |
| A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment | | Imagination | |
| A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. | | Income | |
| A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow. | | Uncategorized | |
| A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. | | Uncategorized | |
| A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. | | Uncategorized | |
| A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. | | Women | |
| All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. | | Uncategorized | |
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| An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. | | Women | |
| Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. | | Business; Friendship | |
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| Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. | | Uncategorized | |
| Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters. | | Uncategorized | |
