Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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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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This was a lucky recollection — it saved her from something like regret.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...

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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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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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

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

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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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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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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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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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It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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