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Sense and Sensibility (1811)
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
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She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas...
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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
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A person and face, of strong, natural, sterling insignificance, though adorned in the first style of fashion.
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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