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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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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

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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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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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I have read your book, and I disapprove.

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