“It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.”
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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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“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could...”
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“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I w...”
“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very f...”
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“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
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“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
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“He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
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“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
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“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”
“…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…”
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“But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.”
“Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.”
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“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?”
“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.”