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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
Jane Austen
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
Jane Austen