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Northanger Abbey (1817)
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
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It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
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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 seached out.
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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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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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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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