"The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them."
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Jane Austen, in Pride and Prejudice (Annotated with Quotes), p. 246
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