Jane Austen Quotes
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
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Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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Success supposes endeavour.