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“It is ‘I - you’ in the issuing of the message, but ‘we’ in the receiving and obeying of it.”

“…the compound expression ‘see and testify’ is used exclusively of eyewitnesses, especially by John.”

“The theme of the Epistle is ‘the Christ is Jesus;’ the theme of the Gospel is ‘Jesus is the Christ.’”

“Her affections had been continually fluctuating, but never without an object. The mischief of neglect and mistaken indulgence towards such a girl…”

“As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship! - How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! - How much of good or evil must be done of him!”

I quite liked the opening of chapter 42, explaining Mr. Bennet’s faults.

“…if the weather should happen to be cool, I should not object to taking you both, as you are neither of you large.”

“But vanity, not love, has been my folly. … Till this moment I never knew myself.”

"Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
Not quite, but funny.

"Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."