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“His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly; he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.”

😜 One of my all-time favourite letters of literature. 🥰

Hah! Lol.
“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
Another gem to fully appreciate.

Two things I hadn’t realised/noted the foreshadowing importance of before:
1) Miss Bingley’s reference about Mr Darcy getting new furniture
2) The irony in Lizzy’s quote, “The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.”