Jane Austen Quotes
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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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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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
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The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
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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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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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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Success supposes endeavour.
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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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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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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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We are all fools in love.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
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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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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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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.