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From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Austen's most-quoted aphorisms on marriage, character, and society.
Chapter 9

Darcy on poetry and love: "I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love." Elizabeth: "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."

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Chapter 11

Elizabeth: "I dearly love a laugh... Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."

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Chapter 57

Mr. Bennet on Mr. Collins's letter: "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

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