Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

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Mrs. Bennett was restored to her usual querulous serenity.

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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

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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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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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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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And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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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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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

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

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble...

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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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"He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete."

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