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Claudia Gray
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April 2 - April 12, 2023
“Not all wickedness reveals itself immediately. Sometimes it masquerades as charm in the beginning. And the masquerade can be more convincing than you would ever dream.”
“I have always maintained,” Knightley said, “that any relations near enough for me to be moved by their births, deaths, and marriages will undoubtedly write to inform me themselves.”
If she had married more wisely, her virtues might have eventually outshone her vices.
Terrible to be caught eavesdropping; worse to be caught by someone who thought it meant you were no better than he. It
Mrs. Smith simply delighted in what she could do instead of dwelling upon what she could not.
“Believe me capable of that courage, and believe me capable of more.”
She turned to see Brandon emerging from the shadows. “Your suspicions were correct. I cannot resist a thunderstorm.” “Nor I,” he said, surprising her. “There is a beauty in nature unrestrained.”
But Juliet, like most of those who incur debts, resolved to think no more upon it until the bill came due.
When making new friends, pay less attention to what people say of themselves, more attention to how they behave. Truth is not in the telling but in the doing.
“But many things we call rude are only so because it is supposedly wrong to speak of them.
One could not truly glimpse the extraordinary without the contrast of the ordinary as a guide.
Miss Churchill had an amiable smile. “Then it is settled. Everyone likes to do what they do well. It is a vanity universal to man.”
“In order to have one’s own pride, one must believe oneself worthy of it,” she replied. “True pride cannot be taken away, not by the contempt of the whole world. We cannot destroy the pride of others, only our own.”
“I will say only this,” she finally answered. “I believe that the smallest hatred is a greater sin than the most misguided love.”
There is no plan so pleasant, no expectation so cherished, that someone cannot be found to disapprove of it.
This was not the last misunderstanding the Darcys would ever have—they were too different in temperament for perfect peace—but they would never be so far apart from each other again.
