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• Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

  Jane Austen

  Vanity, Affection, Blind

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.150, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

  Jane Austen

  Regret, Littles, Bears

  Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.204, Prestwick House Inc

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• If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Stupid, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.40, Trajectory Inc

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• I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Might, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

  Jane Austen

  Belief, Indifference, Objections

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• My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Style

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• Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

  Jane Austen

  Morning, Night, Too Much

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.263, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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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• Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

  Jane Austen

  Taken, Mrs Bennet, Wife

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.5, FV Éditions

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• I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Honour You

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

  Jane Austen

  Nice, Book, Mean

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• Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

  Jane Austen

  Trying, Difficulty, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.548, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Believe, Night

  Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

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• that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

  Jane Austen

  Praise, Neglect, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.244, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Defects, Propensity

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.76, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I love you. Most ardently.

  Jane Austen

  Love You

  "Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride and Prejudice", 2005.

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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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• The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Men, Self

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL 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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• 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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• A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

  Jane Austen

  Needs, Half, Dozen

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

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