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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged no harm can be done.
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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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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.
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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Beware how you give your heart.
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