Mr Darcy: ...But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understand to ridicule.
Elizabeth: Such as vanity and pride.
Mr Darcy: Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
Elizabeth turned away to hide a smile.
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Elizabeth (to Miss Bingely): I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise.
Mr Darcy: No - I have made no such pretension. I have faults enough but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for...I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself... My temper would perhaps be called resentment. My good opinion once lost, is lost for ever.
Elizabeth: THAT is a failing indeed. Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at you. You are safe from me.
Mr Darcy: There is, I believe, in ever disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.
Elizabeth: And your defect is a propensity to hate every body.
Mr Darcy: And yours, is wilfully to misundertsnad them.
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