Lady Harriet: “You men concern yourselves with the eternal verities. We women are content to ponder the petty things in life.”
- from the film, Wives and Daughters -

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Elizabeth: “After all, it is hard that the poor man can’t come to a house he’s legally rented without raising all this speculation.”
Jane: “That is just what I think.”
Elizabeth: “Then we shall leave him to himself.”
Jane: “Yes.”

Jane: “Stop it, Lizzie!”

from the film, Pride and Prejudice (1995)

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Diana: “Oh, Anne. I’m scared!”
Anne: “So am I. Deliciously scared.”

From the film, Anne of Green Gables

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Miss Phoebe: “We always knew Roger Hamley loved our Molly.”
Miss Browning: “We knew no such thing, Phoebe.”
Miss Phoebe: “Well, he rode seven miles to bring her a wasp’s nest and you don’t do that for no reason!”
- from the film, Wives and Daughters -

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