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"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

"Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."

"I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's."

"It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle."

"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

"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."
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