![]() You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing to care for none beyond my own family circle to think meanly of all the rest of the world to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. ![]() It centres on the burgeoning relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman and the novel’s heroine, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, an aristocratic landowner. ![]() “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Pride and Prejudice, Novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. ![]()
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