Jane Austen Quotes
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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.
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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
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What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison...
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]
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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.
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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
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Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
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Time will explain.
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Beware how you give your heart.