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"To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no

one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I

persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only

think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart. My

dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded,

silly man: you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as

well as I do, that the woman who marries him cannot have a proper

way of thinking. You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte

Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the

meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade

yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility

of danger security for happiness."