The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
("Emma")
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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