1813 · Skopia

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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

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 6.2

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

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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

1813

★ 5.3

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

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

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.9

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.8

You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

1813

★ 3.7

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.2

The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, and Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor.

1813

★ 1.9

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