Tag: Jane Austen
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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.
Jane Austen
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen
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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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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
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I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
Jane Austen
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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen