In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Beware of Pity
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature. Book IV
The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys. Fragment
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