| 1 | I could have forgiven a dumb brute. | |
| 2 | I thought you were a dumb brute. | |
| 3 | Riches serve a wise man but command a fool. | |
| 4 | Mr Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man. | |
| 5 | "Finished, " he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. "No more tonight. Close now. " |