Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular
("Persuasion")
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But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkwardJane Austen
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.
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The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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