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| He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility |  |
| She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . . | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses . . . | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| "I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety." | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| " . . . and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| 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. | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| 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. | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| "His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
| " . . . if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them . . ." | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | |
