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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Norfolk
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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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I wish I might take this for a compliment but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing I must write on till I am.
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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Beware how you give your heart.
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A Woman never looks better than on horseback
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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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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