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...he eyed him with a curiosity which seemed to say, that he only wanted to know him to be rich, to be equally civil to him.

She will be more hurt by it, for Robert always was her favourite. —She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.

We must allow difference of taste.

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.

I should hardly call her a lively girl—she is very earnest, very eager in all she does—sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation—but she is not often really merry.

I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy, but like everybody else it must be in my own way.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

She had an excellent heart — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.