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• Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Religious, Past, Way

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.77

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• None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

  Jane Austen

  Teach

  Jane Austen (1923). “The Novels of Jane Austen: The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions”

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• She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Unsaid

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

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• I will only add, God bless you.

  Jane Austen

  Add, God Bless You, Darcy

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Lasts, Said

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Bears, Affinity, Cunning

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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  Care, Plant, Should

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1082, Ageless Reads

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• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.492, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I should not mind anything at all.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Should

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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• The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'

  Jane Austen

  Dirty, Men, Gentleman

  "Emma". Book by Jane Austen. Volume 2, Chapter 11, 1816.

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• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

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• You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, May, Call Me

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Water, Relief

  Jane Austen (2015). “Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.467, Penguin

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• I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Opinion, Manners

  Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.400, Harvard University Press

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• I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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  Sorry, Spending, Extravagant

  Jane Austen (2008). “Letters of Jane Austen: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Disgusted, Deference

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.333

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• Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

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  Dream, Ifs, Mr Knightley

  "Fictional character: Emma Woodhouse". "Emma", www.imdb.com. June 7, 1996.

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• Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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  Wise, Sorry, Instance

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.230

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• One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Eye

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.185

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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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  Enjoy, Enjoyed, Anne Elliot

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

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  Heart, Imagination, Ridiculous

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.262, Ageless Reads

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• A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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  Character, Favour, Might

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.317

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• But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

  Jane Austen

  Miserable

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.143, Ageless Reads

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• I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

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  Rain, Illustration, Ideas

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.516, Courier Dover Publications

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• I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

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  Moving, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.64, Diversion Books

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