"'Tis too much!' she added, 'by far too much. I do not deserve it. Oh! why is not everybody as happy?'" (295)
"'Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying that nothing will every be resolved on; so easy that every servant will cheat you; and so generous that you will always exceed your income'" (296)
"Wickham, Lydia, were all forgotten. Jane was beyond competition her favourite child. At that moment, she cared for no other" (297)
"Elizabeth had now but little time for conversation with her sister; for while he was present, Jane had no attention to bestow on any one else" (297)
"But your arts arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in" (302)
"Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest forbid it" (302)
"Do you not consider that a connection with you, must distract him in the eyes of everybody?" (302)
"She explained what its effects on her had been, and how gradually all her former prejudices had been removed" (314)
"I was spoiled by my parents, who though good themselves (my father particularly, all that was benevolent and amibale), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing, to care for none beyond my own family circle, to think meanly of all the rest of the world, to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared to my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled" (315)
"Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life" (322)
"how rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have! Jane's is nothing to it--nothing at all" (323)
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