Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen
England
16 Dec 1775 // 18 Jul 1817
Novelist

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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Angry people are not always wise.

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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.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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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.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! - When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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