Jane Austen - Persuasion (1816)

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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from.... Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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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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