But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

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