Jane Austen Quotes
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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.
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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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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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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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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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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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She was stronger alone.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
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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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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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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.