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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

He is just Lady Russell’s sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long.
He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drops one’s scissors, or anything that happens.

She thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.