Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.
Jane AustenIn every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
Jane AustenThey parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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