my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

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