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Quotations by author » Jane Austen
British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Everything nourishes what is strong already.
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Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Friendship
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
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He [Darcy] expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man in violent love can be supposed to.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
People
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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