It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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.