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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
Norfolk
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
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This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one but I always speak what I think.
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
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She was stronger alone and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
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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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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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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.
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