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41 " Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book. "
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility
42 " From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes. "
43 " sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning "
44 " Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion… "
45 " Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. "
46 " I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. "
47 " It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. "
48 " I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. "
49 " I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. "
50 " Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood "
51 " A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. "
52 " But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders." "But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with the aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble. "
53 " ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself "
54 " Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. "
55 " I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."-Edward Ferrars "
56 " to hope was to expect "
57 " She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. "
58 " Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? "
59 " At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived. "
60 " They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. "