Jane Austen Quotes

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Jane Austen
Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties?

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Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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Strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly searched out.

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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Undoubtedly... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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