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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

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Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

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

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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