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Quote
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Character
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Chapter
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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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Narrator
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1
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.”
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Charlotte
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6
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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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Mr Darcy
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6
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“My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.”
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Mr Collins
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19
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“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for
well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”
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Narrator (about Charlotte)
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22
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“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
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Mr Darcy
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34
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“Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished for ever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.”
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Narrator (about Mr Bennet)
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42
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“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both; by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”
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Narrator (about Elizabeth)
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50
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“I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”
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Mr Darcy
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58
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“My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about.”
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Mr Bennet
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59
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“It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”
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Elizabeth
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59
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