"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
Time will explain.
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
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.
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
"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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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen
"What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!"
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Persuasion by
Jane Austen