Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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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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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

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May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?

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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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But a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable…one false step involves her in endless ruin.

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My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

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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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