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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

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We do not suffer by accident.

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Evil to some is always good to others

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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

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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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

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Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

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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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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

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