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Mr. Elton was the very person fixed on by Emma for driving the young farmer out of Harriet’s head. She thought it would be an excellent match; and only too palpably desirable, natural, and probable, for her to have much merit in planning it. She feared it was what every body else must think of and predict. It was not likely, however, that any body should have equalled her in the date of the plan, as it had entered her brain during the very first evening of Harriet’s coming to Hartfield.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence

... la prudencia no suele acompañar a las personas que se encolerizan con facilidad...

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Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.

she read on; but every line proved

can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heart-felt delight, diffused over his face, became him.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure;

every one of the novels. To some the delightful freshness and humour of Northanger Abbey, its completeness, finish, and entrain, obscure the undoubted critical facts that its scale is small, and its scheme, after all, that of burlesque or parody, a kind in which the

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conjecturing

I could not excuse a man’s having more music than love—more ear than eye—a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.

Wickham

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives your pleasure.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the

There was no denying that those brothers had penetration.

by allowance" and "loving with personal love." This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There

Podría fácilmente perdonarle su orgullo si no hubiese mortificado el mío.

–Querida, no pienses en cosas tristes. Tengamos esperanzas en cosas mejores. Animémonos con la idea de que puedo sobrevivirte.