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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.
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The house seemed to have all the comforts of little children, dirt and litter.
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It would have amused you to see our progress. We went up by Sion Hill, and returned across the fields. In climbing a hill Mrs. Chamberlayne is very capital; I could with difficulty keep pace with her, yet would not flinch for the world. On plain ground I was quite her equal. And so we posted away under a fine hot sun, she without any parasol or any shade to her hat, stopping for nothing, and crossing the churchyard at Weston with as much expedition as if we were afraid of being buried alive.
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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