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" I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. "
Jane Austen
Well
Cannot
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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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" Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. "
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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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" One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. "
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" Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. "
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" If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. "
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" How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! "
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" Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. "
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" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "
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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 from her cradle can ever receive. "
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" One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. "
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" It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. "
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Man
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" It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? "
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Happy
" One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. "
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" A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals. "
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Think
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Man
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