he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut...there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve

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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

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I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

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It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing - whatever it be!

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For a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife

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Nadie se muere por un resfriado. Pero puede morir de vergüenza por tener tal madre.

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No todas nos podemos dar el lujo de ser románticas".

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Darcy: 'I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.'

Elizabeth:'My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault -- because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.

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But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.

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