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Jane Austen

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

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I should not mind anything at all.
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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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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable that one false step involves her in endless ruin that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
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Almost anything is possible with time
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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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.
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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.
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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
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