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And let's get down to sleep. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family,

she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good

humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and

illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.

Respect, esteem, and confidence had vanished forever, and all his views

of domestic happiness were overthrown. But Mr. Bennett was not of a disposition to seek

comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures

which too often console the unfortunate

for their folly or their vice. He was fond of the country and of books, and from these tastes had

arisen his principal enjoyments. To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her

ignorance and folly had contributed to his

amusement. This is not the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife,

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