Jane Austen Quotes
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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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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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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What strange creatures brothers are!
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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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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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.