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“do not pretend with your sweet temper, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go it’s own way.” “Emma’s project of forgetting Mr Elton for a while made her rather sorry to find, when they had all taken their places, that he was close to her.” “”there was not a creature in the world to whom she spoke to.. with such conviction of being listened to and understood.”

“nobody is healthy in london, nobody can be.” “a pretty young woman and a spoiled child.”

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”