I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed!

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Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

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Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.

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Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved."

"All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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I am glad I have done being in love with him.

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Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.

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