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Jane Austen

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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
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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I am all astonishment.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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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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It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.
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Marianne was silent it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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A Woman never looks better than on horseback
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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