You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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Mots clés lack-of-ambition

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I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice…

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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She was stronger alone…

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Mots clés strength loneliness

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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

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Mots clés lying

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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Mots clés happiness appearances

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Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.

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…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

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Mots clés hope

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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions.  A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the more graceful set of limbs in the world.  But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain, — which taste cannot tolerate, — which ridicule will seize.

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She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

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Mots clés happiness

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