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Quotations by author » Jane Austen
British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817
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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
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It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to books.
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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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It will be a bitter pill to her, that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor, and then be swallowed and forgotten
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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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Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society . . .
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Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.
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My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming--one other person at least.
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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Nobody is on my side, nobody takes part with me: I am cruelly used, nobody feels for my poor nerves.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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