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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
Jane Austen
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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...
Jane Austen -
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
Jane Austen -
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
Jane Austen -
Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen -
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
Jane Austen -
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
Jane Austen
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He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Jane Austen -
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.
Jane Austen -
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen -
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
Jane Austen -
The less said the better.
Jane Austen
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
Jane Austen -
I must have my share in the conversation.
Jane Austen -
And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Jane Austen -
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen -
...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
Jane Austen -
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
Jane Austen
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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
Jane Austen -
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
Jane Austen -
This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
Jane Austen -
Know your own happiness.
Jane Austen