There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet
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It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.
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Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake m...
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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I'm very fond of experimental housekeeping.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be tak...
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood wi...
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Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.
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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to ...
