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• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.303, Oxford University Press

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• The less said the better.

  Jane Austen

  Norfolk, Said

  Jane Austen, Jane Kendall (1942). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Dramatic Publishing

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• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Being The Best

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.107

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• Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

  Jane Austen

  Important, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2168, Delphi Classics

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Motive, Pride And Prejudice Pride

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

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• Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Hands, Facts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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  Funny, Sports, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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• To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

  Jane Austen

  Wish

  Jane Austen (1856). “Sense and Sensibility: A Novel”, p.17

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• The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

  Jane Austen

  Everyday, World, Belief

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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  Inspiring, Done, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.245, MobileReference

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• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Companion, Self Talk

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

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  Moments, Form, Mansfield Park

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

  Jane Austen

  Ought

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.260

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• Success supposes endeavour.

  Jane Austen

  Endeavour

  Jane Austen (2010). “Emma: The Jane Austen Illustrated Edition”, p.12, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, People, Done

  1816 Emma, ch.26.

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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Deserve

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• I can always live by my pen.

  Jane Austen

  Live By, Pens, I Can

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• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Expectations, Liberty

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• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

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  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

  Jane Austen

  Earth, Want, Lasts

  "Pride and Prejudice". Tagline to the film, 2005.

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• I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Vanity, Female

  1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).

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• I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Should

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

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