There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

~ Jane Austen

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When I left, Lydia was prattling about new clothes for her wedding and expressing her ownsatisfaction that she, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, would be the first of them to be married.Wickham smiled indulgently and said pretty things to her. I, disgusted with them both, was persuaded they deserved each other.

~ Mary Street

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Honest men cannot be expected to anticipate the actions of scoundrels.

~ Mary Street

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