I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.
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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
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His having been in love with the aunt gives Cecilia an additional interest with him. I like the idea — a very proper compliment to an aunt! I rather imagine indeed that nieces are seldom chosen but out of compliment to some aunt or another. I daresay Ben [Anna's husband] was in love with me once, and would never have thought of you if he had not supposed me dead of scarlet fever.
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"I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
from the book "Sense and Sensibility" by Ang Lee
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived, my breakfast supplied only two ideas, that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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