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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done." "My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution." Darcy smiled and said, "You are perfectly right. You have employed your time much better. No one admitted to the privilege of hearing you can think anything wanting. We neither of us perform to strangers." Here

A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful;

domestic

I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas.

May the Lord open, Janine would have replied, tonelessly, in her transparent voice, her voice of raw egg white.

Real slum kids with runny noses.

Katolikler, soyadınızı bilmeseler de, Katolik olup olmadığınızı anlamaya çalışırlar hep.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces. «Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú».

DEAR

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.

admired,

I could just sit here, peacefully. I could withdraw. It’s possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.

We, too, shall have to move on again with our little bundles, and leave this beautiful country, which offered us such warm welcome and which now turns it back on us. I love Holland, I who, having no native country, had hoped that it might become my fatherland, and I still hope it will!

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I simply love that tinge of Botticellian pink, that raw rose about the lips, those wet, matted eyelashes…

Maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

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

... la prudencia no suele acompañar a las personas que se encolerizan con facilidad...

twenty

My flower is somewhere out there...