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Time did not compose her.

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I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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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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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

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She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

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You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

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I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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