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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
Sense And Sensibility
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Emma
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park
Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.
Pride and Prejudice
Everybody likes to go their own way � to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Mansfield Park
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
Pride and Prejudice
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
Northanger Abbey
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Pride and Prejudice
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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