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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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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
Jane Austen
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane Austen -
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen -
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
Jane Austen -
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
Jane Austen -
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
Jane Austen
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
Jane Austen -
Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.
Jane Austen -
'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
Jane Austen -
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen -
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Jane Austen
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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
Jane Austen -
An annuity is a very serious business.
Jane Austen -
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Jane Austen -
Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn - almost too handsome to be looked at.
Jane Austen -
His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
Jane Austen
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen -
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
Jane Austen -
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.
Jane Austen -
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
Jane Austen