Jane Austen Quotes
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
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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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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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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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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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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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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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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
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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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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
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Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.
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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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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.