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17 Cards in this Set
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Marriage, Class |
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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Pride, Prejudice, about Darcy |
His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again. |
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Elizabeth, Predjudice, Family, about Jane |
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life. |
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Pride, Marriage, Class, about Darcy and Elizabeth |
But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes |
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Marriage, Class, about Mr Collins |
Having now a good house and a very sufficient income, [Mr. Collins] intended to marry ... he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report. This was his plan of amends—of atonement—for inheriting their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part. |
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Prejudice, about Elizabeth and Mr Wickham |
When Mr. Wickham walked into the room, Elizabeth felt that she had neither been seeing him before, nor thinking of him since, with the smallest degree of unreasonable admiration. |
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Mr Collins, Marriage, Class, about Elizabeth |
Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications...I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females. |
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Marriage, Class, about Mr Collins and Charlotte |
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. |
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Pride, Class, about Lady Catherine de Bourgh |
Her air was not conciliating, nor was her manner of receiving them such as to make her visitors forget their inferior rank. |
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Pride, Predjudice, Family, Marriage, about Mr Darcy, Mr Bingley and Jane |
He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted. |
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Darcy, Marriage, Class, Pride |
"In vain I have 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." |
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Pride, Prejudice, about Elizabeth |
I, who have prided myself on my discernment!—I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust.—How humiliating is this discovery!—Yet, how just a humiliation! |
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Elizabeth, Prejudice, about Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley |
I, who have prided myself on my discernment!—I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust.—How humiliating is this discovery!—Yet, how just a humiliation! |
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Elizabeth, Prejudice, Family, about Lydia |
...she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. |
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Marriage, Class, about Pemberley, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth |
Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in their admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something! |
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Mary, Family, Marriage, about Lydia |
Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; 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. |
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Mr Collins, Pride, Prejudice, Marriage, Family, Class, about Lydia |
The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this |
