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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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Hampshire
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I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?
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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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You have delighted us long enough.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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A Woman never looks better than on horseback
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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
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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.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.
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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Now be sincere did you admire me for my impertinence? For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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