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  1. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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  2. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    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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  3. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    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 they the result of previous study?
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  4. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." {Elizabeth Bennett}
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  5. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    One word from you shall silence me forever.
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  6. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.
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  7. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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  8. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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  9. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
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  10. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
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  11. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects."
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  12. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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