Jane Austen Quotes
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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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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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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.
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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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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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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 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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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.