It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
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Zum Autor"...For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan."
"Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different."
"On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others."
"I dearly love a laugh."
"Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person."
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."