"Every savage can dance."
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"This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret."
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"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
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"Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment."
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"I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?"
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"It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend."
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"Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority."
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"Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?"
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"There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won."
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"The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister."
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"Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her."
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"I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy."
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"None but a woman can teach the science of herself."
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"her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give."
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"I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable."
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"If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next."
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"I do not cough for my own amusement."
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"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
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"His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle."
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"She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation"
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