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I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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

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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

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The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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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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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

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'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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