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“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Sense and Sensibility
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“To love is to burn, to be on fire.” – Persuasion
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“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.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.” – Sense and Sensibility
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“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” – Mansfield Park
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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves.” – Northanger Abbey
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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.” – Sense and Sensibility
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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Emma
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“Next to being married, a girl likes to be cross a little now and then.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” – Persuasion
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“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” – Sense and Sensibility
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“There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.” – Pride and Prejudice SPENDING TIME WITH GOD QUOTES
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” – Pride and Prejudice
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“It is such a happiness when good people get together.” – Emma
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“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.” – Emma
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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.” – Mansfield Park
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“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” – Northanger Abbey
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“My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me forever.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” – Pride and Prejudice
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“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” – Mansfield Park
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Pride and Prejudice
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“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” – Pride and Prejudice