You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
("Pride and Prejudice")
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.Jane Austen
But you must give my compliments to him. Yes - I think it must be compliments. Is not there a something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? - So many months acquaintance! - But compliments may be sufficient here.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together.
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On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
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