From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen
"Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for."
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen
"But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen
Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Northanger Abbey by
Jane Austen