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We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

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