1 But I will try to command myself.
2 I wish Sarah was here to doctor you, but I am no doctor myself.
3 But, if I know myself," said he, "this is from no want of gallantry towards them.
4 This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.
5 I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed.
6 I really cannot be plaguing myself for ever with all the new poems and states of the nation that come out.
7 I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
8 If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like.
9 Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself.
10 Here," said he, "ended the worst of my state; for now I could at least put myself in the way of happiness; I could exert myself; I could do something.
11 No, sir, she is not one-and-thirty; but I do not think I can put off my engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will at once suit her and myself.
12 Upon my word," said she, "I should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself.
13 It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides; and for myself, I certainly never should, in any circumstance of tolerable similarity, give such advice.
14 You talk of being proud; I am called proud, I know, and I shall not wish to believe myself otherwise; for our pride, if investigated, would have the same object, I have no doubt, though the kind may seem a little different.
15 I never knew him myself; I only heard of him; but there was a something in his conduct then, with regard to my father and sister, and afterwards in the circumstances of his marriage, which I never could quite reconcile with present times.
16 I had not considered that my excessive intimacy must have its danger of ill consequence in many ways; and that I had no right to be trying whether I could attach myself to either of the girls, at the risk of raising even an unpleasant report, were there no other ill effects.
17 I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you do now.
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