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"'I can have no pleasure while I see you in this state.' 'And you will never see me otherwise. Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.' 'You must not talk so, Marianne. Have you no comforts? no friends? Is your loss such as leaves no opening for consolation?'"

"Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power..."

"'Do come now,' said he-'pray come-you must come-I declare you shall come-You can't think how you will like them...And they both long to see you of all things, for they have learned at Exeter that you are the most beautiful creatures in the world; and I have told them it is all very true, and a great deal more.'"

"But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at gimes, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness"

"This was s subject which endured Marianne's attention, and she was beginning to...question him more minutely on the objects that had particularly interested him, when Edward interrupted her by saying, 'You must not inquire too far, Marianne - remember I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste if we come to particulars."

"This was s subject which endured Marianne's attention, and she was beginning to...question him more minutely on the objects that had particularly interested him, when Edward interrupted her by saying, 'You must not inquire too far, Marianne - remember I have no knowledge in the picturesque, and I shall offend you by my ignorance and want of taste if we come to particulars."

"'You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.'
'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.'"

'Brandon is just the kind of man,' said Willoughby one day, when they were talking of him together, 'whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.'"

"and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, the truth was less violently outraged than usually happens."