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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Jane Austen

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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
Style
Writing

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.
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Of this she was perfectly unaware to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
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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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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
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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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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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