To understand, thoroughly understand her own heart, was the first endeavour
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Card 7
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With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings, with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange every body's destiny
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Card 8
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Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English...he can have no English delicacy.
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Card 9
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A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write tolerable letter.
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Card 10
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her [to marry him].
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Card 11
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The course of true love never did run smooth- a Hartfield edition of Shakespeare would have a long note on that passage
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Card 12
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind and sour the temper.
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Card 13
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You were very popular before you came, because you were Mr Weston's son- but lay out half a guinea at Ford's and your popularity will stand upon your own virtues.
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Card 14
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Emma could not but rejoice to hear that she [Jane] had a fault
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Card 15
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The style of [Martin's] letter was much above her expectation
