Jane Austen Quotes
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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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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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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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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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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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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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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.