It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.