"All words are prejudices."
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"Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"One word from you shall silence me forever."
"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
"it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
"We neither of us perform to strangers."
"Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."
"You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
"I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends."
"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
"A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power."
"Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?"
"To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is..."
"The best antidote to prejudice is reality."
"Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices."
"When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption."
"Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved."
"With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment."
"The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one."