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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feeling...more

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I dearly love a laugh.

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But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. -- Gratitude, not...more

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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

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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...more

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... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that...more

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Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

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With a book he was regardless of time...

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

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However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one...more

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She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that ...more

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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 women can bestow.' Miss Bingley immediately fixate...more

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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.