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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
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“It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”
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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing
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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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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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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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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.
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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
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