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May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going tommorow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

What is his name?

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure were prepossessed in her favor.

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.

Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one.

There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance.Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.

Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.

—Es cierto que no tengo la facilidad que poseen otros —señaló Darcy— de conversar con soltura con aquellos que no conocen. No puedo ceñirme al tono de su conversación, ni fingirme interesado por sus asuntos, como veo hacer tan a menudo.

...there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.