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• To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

  Jane Austen

  Teacher, School, Men

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

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• ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Being Real, Unjust

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.157, Wild Jot Press

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• I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Work, Organization

  'Sense and Sensibility' (1811) ch. 13

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• And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Treats, Shops

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.142, BookBaby

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• That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Moderation, Should

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.414, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.

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  Love, Heart, Men

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.3

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• it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

  Jane Austen

  Reading, Years, Two

  Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey”, p.79, Cumulus Publishing Limited

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