Jane Austen Quotes
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
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One can never have too large a party.
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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
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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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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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Every savage can dance.
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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.