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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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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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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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Too many cooks spoil the broth

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

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There are secrets in all families.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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