Jane Austen Quotes
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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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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It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.