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1. Narrator, about Mrs. Ferrars: Sense & Sensibility: “She was not a woman of many words; for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas”
2. Henry Tilney: Northanger Abbey: “No one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half."
3. Mr. Bennet, about his wife: Pride and Prejudice: “You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least."
4. Narrator, about Lady Middleton, Sense and Sensibility: “a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.”
5. Narrator, about Mr. Collins: Pride and Prejudice: “The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature, must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance.”
6. Narrator, about Elinor’s brother, Sense and Sensibility: “Elinor agreed to [everything he said], for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
7. Henry Tilney: Northanger Abbey: “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
8. Narrator, about John Dashwood: Sense and Sensibility: He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed