What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Jane Austen in Mansfield Park
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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