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"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."
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"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"
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"If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means-it may put me on my guard-at least, it may be something to live for."
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"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."
Ethics

"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
Society

"They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town."
Philosophy

"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
Man

"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
Virtue

"My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be..."
Romance

"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."
Mind
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