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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

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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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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

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'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'

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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

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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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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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