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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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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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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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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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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

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