"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."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"In vain have I 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."
"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you."
"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness."
"Till this moment I never knew myself."
"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"We are all fools in love."
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
"Angry people are not always wise."
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
"You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
"My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
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