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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 7.8

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 5.6

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Night Thoughts · 1745

★ 5.3

Religious literature

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

God is Not Great · 2007

★ 5.2

Essay · Religious literature

Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Christopher Hitchens

The Portable Atheist · 2007

★ 5.1

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.9

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

Emma · 1816

★ 4.0

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Persuasion · 1817

★ 4.0

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Sense and Sensibility · 1811

★ 3.9

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Joy to the world! the lord is come; Let earth receive her King. Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room, And heav'n and nature sing.

Joy to the World · 1719

★ 3.6

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Night Thoughts · 1742

★ 3.6

A God all mercy, is a God unjust.

Night Thoughts · 1743

★ 3.6

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

1859

★ 3.6

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

1885

★ 3.6

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything · 2007

★ 3.6

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