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But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.", "speaker": "Mrs. Bennet", "source": "Chapter 20", "label": "Nerves", "note": "Mrs. Bennet is ridiculous, but the pressure behind the performance is real." } ] }, { "heading": "Lines that reveal the speaker", "body": [ "The Bennet sisters share a house, not a temperament. Austen gives each of them a different way of asking the world to notice her." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "I dearly love a laugh.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Bennet", "source": "Chapter 11", "label": "Lizzy", "note": "Elizabeth makes wit sound easy, even when it is doing serious work." }, { "quote": "I must think your language too strong in speaking of both", "speaker": "Jane Bennet", "source": "Chapter 24", "label": "Jane", "note": "Jane's gentleness is not emptiness. It is a discipline." }, { "quote": "I should infinitely prefer a book.", "speaker": "Mary Bennet", "source": "Chapter 6", "label": "Mary", "note": "Mary chooses seriousness because it is the one role no one else in the room seems to want." }, { "quote": "And we mean to treat you all", "speaker": "Lydia Bennet", "source": "Chapter 39", "label": "Lydia", "note": "Lydia makes confidence sound like a plan, which is exactly the problem." } ] }, { "heading": "When the story changes temperature", "body": [ "The family comedy is never only comedy. Under pressure, Longbourn shows tenderness, blindness, panic, and the cost of never having planned ahead." ], "quoteCards": [ { "quote": "Till this moment I never knew myself.", "speaker": "Elizabeth Bennet", "source": "Chapter 36", "label": "Recognition", "note": "Elizabeth's turn is the novel's moral center." }, { "quote": "Then it is as I always hoped", "speaker": "Jane Bennet", "source": "Chapter 49", "label": "Jane hopes", "note": "Jane keeps faith with other people longer than almost anyone deserves." }, { "quote": "I leave it to yourself to determine", "speaker": "Mr. Bennet", "source": "Chapter 23", "label": "A father steps back", "note": "Mr. Bennet's irony often arrives where decision should be." }, { "quote": "That is all very proper and civil, I am sure", "speaker": "Mrs. Bennet", "source": "Chapter 14", "label": "Civil enough", "note": "Mrs. Bennet hears manners as tactics, and she is not always wrong." } ] }, { "heading": "More quote pages", "body": [ "Follow one voice closely, or stay inside Longbourn and listen to the whole Bennet family at once." ], "linkCards": [ { "href": "/elizabeth-bennet-quotes/", "title": "Elizabeth Bennet quotes", "description": "Wit, stubbornness, self-correction, and the moments when Lizzy sees more than she meant to." }, { "href": "/mary-bennet-quotes/", "title": "Mary Bennet quotes", "description": "Moral philosophy, wounded pride, and the lines that make Mary more than the family joke." }, { "href": "/mr-darcy-quotes/", "title": "Mr. Darcy quotes", "description": "The insult, the proposal, the apology, and every sentence where Darcy nearly explains himself." }, { "href": "/bennet-family-quotes/", "title": "Bennet family quotes", "description": "Longbourn in miniature: nerves, irony, kindness, vanity, and five sisters trying to be heard." } ] } ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Who counts as the Bennet family in Pride and Prejudice?", "a": "The Bennet household includes Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia." }, { "q": "Why collect Bennet family quotes together?", "a": "The family scenes are where Austen makes private pressure public: money, marriage, embarrassment, wit, affection, and neglect all speak at once." }, { "q": "Are these Bennet family quotes from the novel?", "a": "Yes. 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