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It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's being quite unable to sit alone.

no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.

Undoubtedly,

man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known

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Estás deseando decirlo y no tengo inconveniente en escucharlo.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a proceder de la manera que considere más apropiada para mi felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que piense usted ni ningún otro.

--As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females." --"I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you

Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, "How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." No

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.[2] 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.

allowance," by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect — fairly large and yet unusually choice of Austenians or Janites, there would

Pero la gente cambia tanto que siempre hay en ellos algo nuevo que observar.

was a

Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently. You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it. This

A menudo lo que nos enga­ña es únicamente nuestra propia vanidad. Las mujeres nos creemos que la admiración significa más de lo que es en realidad.

(in some cases)... a good memory is unpardonable

advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had

Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able to bring Darcy with him to Longbourn before many days had passed after Lady Catherine's visit.

mother,

He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.

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What think you of books?" said he, smiling. "Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings.

Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them." "If you will thank me," he replied, "let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you." Elizabeth

Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought," said Mrs. Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly." The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit. Chapter

As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of the kind. Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford,

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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. I

Edmund only took Fanny because Mary shocked him, and that Fanny might very likely have taken Crawford if he had been a little more assiduous; yet the matchless rehearsal-scenes and the characters of Mrs. Norris and others have secured, I believe, a considerable party for it. Sense and Sensibility has perhaps the

Jane will be quite an old main soon,I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord, how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!

eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who

presence of such a

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the

los bondadosos deseos de prosperidad expresados por todas las malévolas ancianas de Meryton apenas

Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such 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.

La arrogancia y el orgullo son cosas muy distintas, aunque a menudo se tomen como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser arrogante. El orgullo se refiere màs a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

You are too sensible a girl to fall in love merely because you are warned against it.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

No le era difícil conjeturar lo poco estable que había de ser la felicidad de una pareja unida únicamente porque sus pasiones eran más fuertes que su virtud.

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined

Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's being quite unable to sit alone. Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

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. I

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper