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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
2 She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence.
3 Not that I mean to find fault with you, for such things I know are all chance in this world.
4 She looked forward to their entrance as the point on which all her chance of pleasure for the evening must depend.
5 "But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world," replied Darcy.
6 That they should marry, small as is their chance of happiness, and wretched as is his character, we are forced to rejoice.
7 She concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no chance of it.
8 I know very well, madam," said he, "that when persons sit down to a card-table, they must take their chances of these things, and happily I am not in such circumstances as to make five shillings any object.
9 Well," said Charlotte, "I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth.
10 Mrs. Bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no more, and though a day seldom passed in which Elizabeth did not account for it clearly, there was little chance of her ever considering it with less perplexity.
11 After walking some time in this way, the two ladies in front, the two gentlemen behind, on resuming their places, after descending to the brink of the river for the better inspection of some curious water-plant, there chanced to be a little alteration.
12 A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.