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By Jane Austen
…I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
- Source
- Pride and Prejudice (first edition, three volumes), 1813 · Volume I, chapter V, p. 40 (page number counted, see private note)
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- Internet Archive (University of Alberta copy of the first edition, London: printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813)
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Spoken by Elizabeth Bennet in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, as printed in the first edition (London: T. Egerton, 1813). She is answering a friend who has just said that Mr. Darcy, the rich and proud newcomer, has a right to be proud. In the novel her words begin "That is very true, and I could easily forgive his pride".