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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 Mr. Bennet could not have chosen better.
2 My kind friends will not hear of my returning till I am better.
3 In nine cases out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.
4 They have known her much longer than they have known me; no wonder if they love her better.
5 It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner.
6 She was not the better pleased with his gallantry from the idea it suggested of something more.
7 Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.
8 Beyond a doubt, they do wish him to choose Miss Darcy," replied Jane; "but this may be from better feelings than you are supposing.
9 I have nothing to say against him; he is a most interesting young man; and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better.
10 She was received, however, very politely by them; and in their brother's manners there was something better than politeness; there was good humour and kindness.
11 Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me irritated him, I believe, very early in life.
12 I should like balls infinitely better," she replied, "if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting.
13 This she would not hear of; but she was not so unwilling to comply with their brother's proposal; and it was settled that Mr. Jones should be sent for early in the morning, if Miss Bennet were not decidedly better.
14 They solaced their wretchedness, however, by duets after supper, while he could find no better relief to his feelings than by giving his housekeeper directions that every attention might be paid to the sick lady and her sister.
15 She had always felt that Charlotte's opinion of matrimony was not exactly like her own, but she had not supposed it to be possible that, when called into action, she would have sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage.
16 The apothecary came, and having examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it; advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts.
17 Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with them was expressed towards the two eldest.
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