Jane Austen - Persuasion (1816)

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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

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If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.

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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

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If you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove any thing.

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The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant...

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Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

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All the privilege I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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