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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

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You have delighted us long enough.

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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.

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