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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
'I am afraid,' replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor-which is one very strong argument in favour of Matrimony...
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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