“I am quite pleased with Martha & Mrs. Lefroy for wanting the pattern of our Caps, but I am not so well pleased with Your giving it to them-. Some wish, some prevailing Wish is necessary to the animation of everybody’s Mind, & in gratifying this, You leave them to form some other which will not probably be half so innocent.”
letter to Cassandra
June 2, 1799 [20]
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“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”
letter to Cassandra
December 25, 1798 [15]
“Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation & vice, and I begin already to find my Morals corrupted.”
letter to Cassandra, from London
August 23, 1796 [3]
“‘You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.’ That is his notion of Christian forgiveness!”
Mr. Bennet, reading a letter from Mr. Collins on the scandal of Lydia and Wickham, who were finally forced to marry
Pride & Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 15
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