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Wouter van Noort
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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some
particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
— Dec 22, 2024 02:59PM
particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
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Wouter van Noort
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"Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature, and for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings care not how much I may be wounding yours."
— Dec 28, 2024 06:33AM
Wouter van Noort
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"Unhappy as the event must be for her, we may draw from it this useful lesson: That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable, that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful, and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
— Dec 28, 2024 02:46AM
Wouter van Noort
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If Elizabeth, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter, she had formed no expectation at all of its contents. With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.
— Dec 27, 2024 11:28AM
Wouter van Noort
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He cried; "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression.
— Dec 27, 2024 05:39AM
Wouter van Noort
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
— Dec 26, 2024 01:09PM
Wouter van Noort
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Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain. Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it.
— Dec 25, 2024 01:52PM
Wouter van Noort
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After waiting at home every morning for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and, yet more, the alteration of her manner, would allow Jane to deceive herself no longer.
— Dec 24, 2024 06:34AM
Wouter van Noort
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"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
— Dec 24, 2024 01:46AM
Wouter van Noort
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Mr.Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclination, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: "My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world of your excellent judgment in all matters within the scope of your understanding."
— Dec 23, 2024 11:11AM
Wouter van Noort
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The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
— Dec 21, 2024 02:45PM
