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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Jane Austen

Giving, Pleasure, Sensations

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.178, BookCaps Study Guides

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

Jane Austen

Girl, Education, Book

Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

Jane Austen

Beautiful, Believe, Pride

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

Jane Austen

Strong, Evil, Heaven

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.300, BookCaps Study Guides

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

Inspiring, Strong Women, Being Single

1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Jane Austen

Mean, Men, Vanity

Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.8

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At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

Jane Austen

Eye, Sight, Expression

Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

Jane Austen

Eye, World

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

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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Jane Austen

Felt, Known

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

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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Jane Austen

Months, Firsts, Prejudice

Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.62

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Jane Austen

Half, Body, Might

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

Jane Austen

Doe, Sincerity, Emma

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.272, Wild Jot Press

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Jane Austen

Mother, Wish, Next

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.26, Ageless Reads

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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

Jane Austen

Eye, Dancing, Tears

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.207, BookCaps Study Guides

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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Jane Austen

Doors, Broken, Promise

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Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Jane Austen

Crowds, Welcome, Admiration

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.10, Wild Jot Press

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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.

Jane Austen

Feelings, Opinion, Reason

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Jane Austen

Mist, Should, Gloomy

Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.595, Penguin

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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

Jane Austen

Denied

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.1084, BookBaby

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Jane Austen

Saying Goodbye, Desire, Lasts

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.151, BookBaby

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Jane Austen

Guilt, Comfort, Done

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.870, Ageless Reads

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Inspiring, Women, Knowledge

'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Jane Austen

Encouragement, Gratitude, Believe

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Jane Austen

Eye, Thinking, People

Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). “The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.26, Anchor

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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Jane Austen

Sorrow, Employment, May

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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Born: December 16, 1775
Died: July 18, 1817
Occupation: Novelist
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