"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. 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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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain."
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance."
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Pride and Prejudice by
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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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Jane Austen
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
"I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE."
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Pride and Prejudice by
Jane Austen
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