"You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy."
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"He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance."
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"Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives."
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"Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told."
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"Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend."
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"As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!"
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"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
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"I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you."
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"What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!"
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"She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt"
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"The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour."
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"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."
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"One word from you shall silence me forever."
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"Beware how you give your heart."
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"I should infinitely prefer a book."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
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"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
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"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."
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"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
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"Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
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