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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
Jane Austen
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
Jane Austen -
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen -
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."
Jane Austen
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane Austen -
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
Jane Austen -
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Jane Austen -
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Jane Austen
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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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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
Jane Austen -
Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.
Jane Austen -
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
Jane Austen -
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.
Jane Austen
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Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.
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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 am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
Jane Austen -
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen