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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

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Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

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All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

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Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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Time, time will heal the wound.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

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