"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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Emma by Jane Austen
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Emma by Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Emma by Jane Austen
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"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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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle."
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen