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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
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
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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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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
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