Pride and Prejudice, Annotated (Modern Library Classics)

by Jane Austen

Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.”

where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

He then went away, and Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.