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Jane Austen  Quotes
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

—Jane Austen

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GirlSensible
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Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

—Jane Austen

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Church
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One of Edward’s Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.

—Jane Austen

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. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

—Jane Austen

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

—Jane Austen

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Misery
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My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’ ‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good...

—Jane Austen

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If the warmth of her Language could affect the body it mightbe worth reading in this weather.

—Jane Austen

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Jane-Austen
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His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

—Jane Austen

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GainLoss
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

—Jane Austen

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FriendshipLove
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

—Jane Austen

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Inspirational
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

—Jane Austen

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

—Jane Austen

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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. 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...

—Jane Austen

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But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?””Yes, I am fond of history.””I wish I were too. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that...

—Jane Austen

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Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

—Jane Austen

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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not...

—Jane Austen

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Non posso più ascoltare in silenzio. Devo parlarle usando i mezzi a disposizione che ho in questo momento. Lei strazia la mia anima. Provo a un tempo agonia e speranza. Non mi dica che è...

—Jane Austen

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Romantic
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No puedo soportar más en silencio. Debo hablar con usted por cualquier medio a mi alcance. Me desgarra usted el alma. Estoy entre la agonía y la esperanza. No me diga que es demasiado tarde,...

—Jane Austen

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AmorCartas-De-AmorLove
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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.

—Jane Austen

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You have delighted us long enough.

—Jane Austen

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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

—Jane Austen

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Misfortune
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

—Jane Austen

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Advice
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It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

—Jane Austen

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RomanceWitty
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Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile:...

—Jane Austen

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than...

—Jane Austen

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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

—Jane Austen

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AgreementWater
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the...

—Jane Austen

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BlushLoveRomance
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

—Jane Austen

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Happiness
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…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

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Hope
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It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

—Jane Austen

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But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

—Jane Austen

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LifePeopleSociety
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

—Jane Austen

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Words
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

—Jane Austen

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Humorous
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Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

—Jane Austen

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FeelingsFirst-LoveReasoning
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Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to...

—Jane Austen

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

—Jane Austen

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It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.

—Jane Austen

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

—Jane Austen

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Men-And-Women
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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

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There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

—Jane Austen

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There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.

—Jane Austen

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AlwaysMomentsNever-Forget
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No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

—Jane Austen

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EmmaJane-AustenRev-Elton
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Banii pot aduce fericire numai acolo unde n-o poate aduce nimic altceva. In afara de anumite inlesniri, banii nu pot oferi bucurii adevarate

—Jane Austen

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Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

—Jane Austen

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

—Jane Austen

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HumorJane-Austen
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Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

—Jane Austen

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Happiness
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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.””And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.””And yours,” he replied...

—Jane Austen

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CharacterDefectsDislike
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Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

—Jane Austen

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BooksLibraryReading
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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.

—Jane Austen

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FamilyIndividualOutsider
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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.

—Jane Austen

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