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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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I should infinitely prefer a book.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

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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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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

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Almost anything is possible with time

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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