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| It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single young man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.--Ch 1 "...I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."--Mr. Darcy, Ch 3 "Pride...is a very common failing."--Miss Mary Bennet, Ch 5 "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."--Miss Charlotte Lucas, Ch 6 "Keep your breath to cool your porridge."--Miss Lydia Bennet, Ch 6 "Every savage can dance."--Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Ch 6 "[E]very impulse should be guided by reason...[E]xertion should always be in proportion to what is required.""--Miss Mary Bennet, Ch 7 "Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable."--Mr Darcy, Ch 8 "Nothing is more deceitful...than the appearance of humility."--Mr. Darcy, Ch 10 "My good opinion once lost is lost forever."--Mr. Darcy, Ch 11 "There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."--Mr. Darcy, Ch 11 "It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."--Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 18 "Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility." --Mr. Bennet, Ch 23 "And how much I shall have to conceal."--Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 38 "I should infinitely prefer a book."--Miss Mary Bennet, Ch 39 "There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much."--Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 40 "Well, if they can be easy with an estate that is not lawfully their own, so much the better."--Mrs. Bennet, Ch 40 Respect, esteem, and confidence, had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.--Ch 42 "I am afraid that you will be unable to make it out, but I hardly know what I have written."--Miss Jane Bennet, Ch 46 "Nothing was to be done that he did not do himself..."--Mrs Gardiner, Ch 52 "He is as fine a fellow...as I ever saw. He simpers, and smirks, and makes love to us all. I am prodigiously proud of him."--Mr Bennet, Ch 53 "I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever."--Miss Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 54 "We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing." --Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 54 "You are each so complying, that nothing will ever by resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so gernerous, that you will always exceed your income."--Mr Bennet, Ch 55 "The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune."--Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Ch 56 "...had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner"--Mr Darcy, Ch 58 "She remembered that he had yet to learn to be laght at, and it was rather too early to begin."--Elizabeth Bennet, Ch 59 "He is the kind of man, indeed, to whom I should never dare refuse any thing, which he condescended to ask."--Mr Bennet, Ch 59 "If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure."--Mr Bennet, Ch 59 |