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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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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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One can never have too large a party.

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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

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We are all fools in love.

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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

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

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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

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It's such a happiness when good people get together.

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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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