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The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not please in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else can occupy.  Society is becoming irksome; and as for the amusements in which you were wont to share at Bath, the very idea of which without her is abhorrent.  You would not, for instance, now go to a ball for the world.  You feel that you have no longer any friend to whom you can speak with unreserve; on whose regard you can place dependence; or whose counsel, in any difficult, you could rely on.

He must tell his own story.''But he will tell only half of it.''A quarter would be enough.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

What did she say? Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.’‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

a veces es malo ser tan reservada. Si una mujer disimula su afecto al objeto mismo, puede perder la oportunidad de conquistarle;