I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.
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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."
"Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
"And she did what nobody thought of doing... She consulted Anne."
"Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit sense."
"Where an opinion is general it is usually correct."