"She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me."
Relationships
"No one who has ever seen you can think you have anything to learn."
"I have nothing further to say. You could not hear me do myself justice."
Relationships
"My good qualities are under your protection."
Relationships
"I have been a selfish being all my life."
Wisdom
"Such absurdities would never do."
"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire you."
Love
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."
Love
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
Wisdom
"I am not at all in a humour for talking. Use your own judgment."
Solitude
"I have been a selfish being all my life."
"You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
Love
"We are all fools in love."
Love
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
Relationships
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
Truth
"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
Wisdom
"You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
"She is loveliness itself."
Beauty
"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me."
"That is no very striking claim, you will allow, to the friendship of persons of any consequence whatever."
"It is happy for you that her partial regards have so little to do with my feelings."
Wisdom
"We all love to instruct, though we do not all have the same reason."
Education
"You have bewitched me, body and soul."
Love
"It is a very common thing for those who are just entering the world to commit such errors."
Wisdom
"You are too generous to trifle with me."
Kindness
"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room."
Solitude
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
Wisdom
"I am happiest when entirely alone."
Solitude
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."
Truth
"As a child, I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper."
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