Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at... read more

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In the beginning we learn of Miss Elizabeth Bennet, she is the 2nd oldest girl. She has 5 sisters and no brothers. She firsts goes to a ball where Mr.Bingley is a new owner of Netherfield, and all the girls want to dance with him. With him is a very rude man... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

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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.”
“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.”
Mary Bennet
“Nothing is more deceitful ... than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Fitzwilliam Darcy
“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”
“To yield readily - easily - to the persuasion of a friend is no merit... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding - certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
Fitzwilliam Darcy
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.”
Fitzwilliam Darcy
“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?”
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.”
Elizabeth Bennet
“My fingers ... do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault- because I would not take the trouble of practising.”
Elizabeth Bennet
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but no one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
Elizabeth Bennet
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