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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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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

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I will only add, God bless you.

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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

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