Jane Austen Quotes
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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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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I will only add, God bless you.
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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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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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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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!
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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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The less said the better.
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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.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.