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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.