“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread wit...”
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include *Pride and Prejudice* (1813) and *Emma* (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women.
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“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
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“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. 'I can comprehend your go...”
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
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“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
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“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
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“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
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“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
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“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicit...”
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
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“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
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“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of pre...”
“Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”
“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
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“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
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“Almost anything is possible with time”
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“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
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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.”