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1  I wish it could be so easily settled.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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2  I could wish the stairs were handsome.
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3  "I would not wish to do any thing mean," he replied.
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4  Well, as you are resolved to go, I wish you a good journey.
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5  I am delighted with the plan," she cried, "it is exactly what I could wish.
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6  I have no wish to be distinguished; and have every reason to hope I never shall.
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7  It is very hard indeed that she should not have a little pleasure, because Miss Dashwood does not wish it.
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8  I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way.
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9  Willoughby, on his side, gave every proof of his pleasure in their acquaintance, which an evident wish of improving it could offer.
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10  I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
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11  Much as she had suffered from her first conversation with Lucy on the subject, she soon felt an earnest wish of renewing it; and this for more reasons than one.
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12  There is great truth, however, in what you have now urged of the allowances which ought to be made for him, and it is my wish to be candid in my judgment of every body.
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13  Elinor said no more; it immediately struck her that she must then be writing to Willoughby; and the conclusion which as instantly followed was, that, however mysteriously they might wish to conduct the affair, they must be engaged.
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14  She put it into her hands as she spoke; and when Elinor saw the painting, whatever other doubts her fear of a too hasty decision, or her wish of detecting falsehood might suffer to linger in her mind, she could have none of its being Edward's face.
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15  The vulgar freedom and folly of the eldest left her no recommendation, and as Elinor was not blinded by the beauty, or the shrewd look of the youngest, to her want of real elegance and artlessness, she left the house without any wish of knowing them better.
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16  About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.
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17  Their visitors, except those from Barton Park, were not many; for, in spite of Sir John's urgent entreaties that they would mix more in the neighbourhood, and repeated assurances of his carriage being always at their service, the independence of Mrs. Dashwood's spirit overcame the wish of society for her children; and she was resolute in declining to visit any family beyond the distance of a walk.
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