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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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Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

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

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

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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.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more

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Well, evil to some is always good to others.

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Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and...more

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She hated herself more than she could express.

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the sub...more

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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickle...more

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I...more

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.