Pride & Prejudice - Jane Ostin

You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

— When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
— In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.