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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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• Education

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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• Life

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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• Happiness

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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• Love

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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• Life

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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