Quotes about austen, page 10
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen in Mansfield Park
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong
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