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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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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
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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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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.
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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.
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It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
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We neither of us perform to strangers.
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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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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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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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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
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