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Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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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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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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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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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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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
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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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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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For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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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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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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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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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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He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
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Mrs. Bennett was restored to her usual querulous serenity.
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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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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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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
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From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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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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Mr Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth—and it was soon done—done while Mrs Bennet was stirring the fire.
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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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