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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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If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

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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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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

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A Woman never looks better than on horseback

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

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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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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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