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The Lucas family can sympathize with the Bennets because their daughters will also need husbands. Here Charlotte suggests that pride isn't always bad. Indeed, pride can help protect a family reputation, or can provide the motivation to help people. Charlotte also implies that sometimes men's faults have to be overlooked when you're on the hunt for a husband. Mary represents a very strict by-the-book type of morality that, Austen makes clear, needs to be tempered with experience.