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You cannot believe everything you hearJude Morgan
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I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.Jude Morgan
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People argue themselves out of their pleasuresJude Morgan
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The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.Jude Morgan
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When you are in love- everything is romanticJude Morgan
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Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of thingsJude Morgan
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Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.Jude Morgan
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If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.Jude Morgan
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A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.Jude Morgan
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I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.Jude Morgan
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She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it.Jude Morgan
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That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.Jude Morgan
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You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.Jude Morgan
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None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to timeJude Morgan
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No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.Jude Morgan
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But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.Jude Morgan
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Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than catsJude Morgan
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A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.Jude Morgan
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To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.Jude Morgan
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Without money and without connections- I have failed you!Jude Morgan
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Imagination shrinks from the consequences.Jude Morgan
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I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.Jude Morgan
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It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heardJude Morgan
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Society can only hurt if you care for its opinionJude Morgan
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I will do what I canJude Morgan
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Words are only wordsJude Morgan
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Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?Jude Morgan
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I can always forgive where I understand.Jude Morgan
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So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves farJude Morgan
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A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously, "between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.Jude Morgan
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Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.Jude Morgan
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I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interestingJude Morgan
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One wouldn't wish to tempt fateJude Morgan
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It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrongJude Morgan
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It is so important to think for yourself.Jude Morgan
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Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.Jude Morgan
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Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.Jude Morgan
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It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.Jude Morgan
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The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of usJude Morgan
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Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artistJude Morgan
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No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.Jude Morgan
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I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.Jude Morgan
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Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.Jude Morgan
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I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.Jude Morgan
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One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.Jude Morgan
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Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.Jude Morgan