Jane Austen Quotes
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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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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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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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There are secrets in all families.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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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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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.