Should I try and incorporate phrases from classics such as PRIDE AND PREJUDICE into...

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...my everyday language? When I was 5 my parents moved to the US from China so my English hasn't exactly been 100% perfect and still isn't.
I speak English really fluently and I'm excellent with grammar mainly because I read a lot. I'm fairly good with writing too.
But recently I've been wanting to incorporate phrases from classics (Like, Pride and Prejudice) into my everyday language, and it's been awful.

Now I feel unsure about everything I say/write in English.
Please help! And also, are there any grammar mistakes in what I wrote?
 
Uh...why would you want to do that? It's centuries out of date. Nobody speaks like that any more, even in England, and you're in the US.

Trying to talk like somebody out of _any_ book is probably a bad idea. People don't talk like book dialogue - they are much less coherent and more casual than even modern written dialogue is. Just be yourself. If you try to talk like someone else, at best you'll sound pretentious and at worst you'll sound laughable.
 
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