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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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• Time

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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• Books

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

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• Love

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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• Love

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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