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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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2 There is one point on which I want your advice.
3 "And Lydia used to want to go to London," added Kitty.
4 I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it.
5 But in matters of greater weight, I may suffer from want of money.
6 He is nothing to us, you know, and I am sure I never want to see him again.
7 I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject.
8 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
9 I want to know," said she, with a countenance no less smiling than her sister's, "what you have learnt about Mr. Wickham.
10 Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.
11 It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
12 She then sat still five minutes longer; but unable to waste such a precious occasion, she suddenly got up, and saying to Kitty, "Come here, my love, I want to speak to you," took her out of the room.
13 She was more alive to the disgrace which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.
14 My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have the utmost force of passion to put aside, in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.
15 The situation of your mother's family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison to that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father.
16 Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
17 But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
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