Great Quotes From Great Novels

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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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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

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"Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone"

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"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment."

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"My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."

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"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."

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"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her."

Are you immune to the Darcy appeal?

~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen