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Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.

The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.

Mrs. Norris hitched a breath and went on again.

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...

he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut...there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.

Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.

Sir Thomas, indeed, was, by this time, not very far from classing Mrs. Norris as one of those well–meaning people who are always doing mistaken and very disagreeable things.

He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?

She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice , said she. — In not one of all my clever replies, my delicate negatives, is there any allusion to making a sacrifice. I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.

I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.

But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.

If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.