I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart