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…showed last 75 words of 2069 total…she has accepted the full social value of her judgment that to be a mistress of Pemberley might be something. Allowing the forces of the snobbery, the exploitation, the inhumanity of all the evils which diminish the human mind and which are inherent in a materialistic society, the novel clearly confirms the cynical truth of the opening sentence. Pride and Prejudice, like its title, offers falsely simple antitheses, which surrender the complexity of life itself.