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| | Fiction: Pride and Prejudice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | ``Pride,'' observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ``is a very common failing I believe. |
 | | By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. |
 | | Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence; she had no conversation, no stile, no taste, no beauty. |
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