Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.