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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Pleasure
Understanding

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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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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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
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