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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
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I can always live by my pen.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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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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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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