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Character
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Chapter
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“His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.”
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Narrator (about Mr Darcy)
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3
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“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody”. “And yours, he replied with a smile, “is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
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Elizabeth and Mr Darcy
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11
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“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
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Elizabeth
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31
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“If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer.”
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Narrator (about Mr Darcy)
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33
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“From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
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Elizabeth
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34
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“I, who have prided myself on my discernment!—I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust.—How humiliating is this discovery!—Yet, how just a humiliation! ... Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself.”
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Elizabeth
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36
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“Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.”
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Narrator (about Elizabeth)
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36
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“And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to [Darcy], without any reason. It is such a spur to one’s genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind. One may be continually abusive without saying anything just; but one cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
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Elizabeth
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40
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“They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him. Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself.”
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Narrator
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52
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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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