Jane Austen Quotes
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
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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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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language – a something between compliments and – and love – to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
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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 cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
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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.