Jane Austen Quotes
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If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.
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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.
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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!
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I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
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A Woman never looks better than on horseback...
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