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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

You have delighted us long enough.

I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

I love you. Most ardently.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.