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Your wife has a claim to your politeness, to your respect, at least. She must be attached to you, or she would not have married you. To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly, is no atonement to Marianne; nor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience.
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Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.
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No hay nada más engañoso que la apariencia de humildad. A menudo sólo es carencia de opinión, y a veces una ostención indirecta.
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My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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If you will thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.
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.... Não é o tempo ou a oportunidade que determinam a intimidade... é apenas a disposição. Sete anos seriam insuficientes para que algumas pessoas se conhecessem e sete dias são mais que suficientes para outras.
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Sono poche le persone che io amo veramente, e ancora meno quelle che stimo. Più conosco il mondo, più ne sono delusa, e ogni giorno di più viene confermata la mia opinione sull'incoerenza del carattere umano, e sul poco affidamento che si può fare sulle apparenze, siano esse di merito o di intelligenza.
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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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Se puede hablar mal constantemente de una persona sin llegar a decir nada justo; pero no es posible reírse sin descanso de alguien sin dar de cuando en cuando con una observación ingeniosa.
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