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1  "I am sick of Mr. Bingley," cried his wife.

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2  Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.

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3  One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

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4  Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley.

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5  She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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6  The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

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7  I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now.

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8  Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

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9  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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10  At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.

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11  "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose," said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife.

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12  The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.

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13  He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.

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14  Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.

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15  Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

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16  The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

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17  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 rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

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