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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to wether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate to say 'Yes', she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered int with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
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To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of.
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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
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Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.
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I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!
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Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.
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Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
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Every savage can dance.
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