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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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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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Now they were as strangers nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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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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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love it is not my way, or my nature and I do not think I ever shall.
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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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