Jane Austen Quotes
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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering...
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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She attracted him more than he liked.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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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.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.