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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 Perhaps by and by I may observe that private balls are much pleasanter than public ones.
2 Miss Lucas called soon after breakfast, and in a private conference with Elizabeth related the event of the day before.
3 She had obtained private intelligence that Mr. Darcy did not wish for cards; and Mr. Hurst soon found even his open petition rejected.
4 He generously imputed the whole to his mistaken pride, and confessed that he had before thought it beneath him to lay his private actions open to the world.
5 Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expences, she frequently sent them.
6 But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved that it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
7 Much had been done and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.
8 They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.