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“I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I love you. Most ardently.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice