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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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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet
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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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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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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.
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But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.
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From politics it was an easy step to silence.
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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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Eleanor went to her room where she was free to think and be wretched.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt
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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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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.
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