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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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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
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The less said the better.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom my head is always full of something else.
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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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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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He is also handsome, replied Elizabeth, which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged no harm can be done.
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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!
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I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.
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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
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