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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.

— Jane Austen

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Emma (1815)

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