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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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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

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... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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

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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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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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it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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

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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 person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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She was stronger alone.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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