It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain.
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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 at every attempt to intimidate me.
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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.