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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?
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I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....
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"He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete."
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.
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A man... must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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Heaven forbid! — That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay every thing open.
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The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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