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• One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

  Jane Austen

  Cities, Sound, Birmingham

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 36 (Mrs Elton)

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• It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, May, Action

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.319, Penguin

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• I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

  Jane Austen

  Deserve You, Lizzy, Cases

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.221, Book Boutiques

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• She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

  Jane Austen

  Tired, Attachment, Letters

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Rude, Lovely

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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• I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

  Jane Austen

  Doe, Records, May

  Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen Six Pack - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion”, p.1636, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

  Jane Austen

  Age, Emotion, Blushing

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.180, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Numbers, Legs

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.1

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• 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 feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Feelings, Taste

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

  Jane Austen

  Stories, Spirit, Ridiculous

  Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

  Jane Austen

  Taken, Ideas, Confusion

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.114

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• We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Romance, Proud

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.297

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• You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.118

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• There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Two

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

  Jane Austen

  Found, Cures, Given

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.183, MobileReference

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• She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

  Jane Austen

  Desire, Command

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

  Jane Austen

  Regret, Lucky, Recollection

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.5

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• Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

  Jane Austen

  Stupid, Men, Knowing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.664, Google Publishing

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• She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Admiration, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.44

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• The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Office, Doe

  Jane Austen (2012). “Emma Thrift Study Edition”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Safety, Risk

  Jane Austen (1993). “Persuasion”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.95

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• Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

  Jane Austen

  Differences, Surprise, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Remembrance, Suffering

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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