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• Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

  Jane Austen

  Cold Hearted, Ashamed, Sensibility

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• Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

  Jane Austen

  Doors, Joy, Tears

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• Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Comfort, Given

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.190, Ageless Reads

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• Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Preparation, Preparation For Death

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.145, BookBaby

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• About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Good Luck, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “Mansfield Park Volume I [Easyread Comfort Edition]”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

  Jane Austen

  Men, World, Body

  Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.18, Prestwick House Inc

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• the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  Jane Austen

  Son, Years, Hopeless

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

  Jane Austen

  Littles, Rubbish, Firsts

  Jane Austen “The Collected Works of Jane Austen”, Library of Alexandria

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• In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Power, Excellence

  "Northanger Abbey". Second Edition,

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• Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
  first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
  everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
  love, if they can.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Marriage, Doe

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• My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Style

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• No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

  Jane Austen

  Training, Fifteen, Born

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.2, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Mouths

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Demand

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 21, 1811.

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• I walk: I prefer walking.

  Jane Austen

  Walks, Walking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.327, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Teach

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 54 (1813)

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• He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Affectionate

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.114, Penguin

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• How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

  Jane Austen

  Impossible, Cases, Hard

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.341, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

  Jane Austen

  Perfection, Receiving, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Witty, Laughter

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

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• I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Six, Wonder

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33

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• The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

  Jane Austen

  Healthy, London, Truth Is

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.87

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• Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Expression, Feelings

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.233, BookBaby

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