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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
Happiness
"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."
Behavior
"When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!"
Spiritual
"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."
Hope
"We are all fools in love."
Love
"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
Love
"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
"Her tears fell abundantly-but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes-and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding-really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two-and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life."
Emotion
"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others."
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"The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster."
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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
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"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."
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"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."
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"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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