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"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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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"
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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
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"Books are a narcotic."
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"I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love."
Love

"How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
Philosophy

"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
Literature

"Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine."
Love

"I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
Love

"To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel-nut can be supposed capable of."
Feminism

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
Woman

"Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy..."
Romance

"Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society."
Love

"Well, evil to some is always good to others."
Morality
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