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Persuasion (1816)
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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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Born:
December 16, 1775
Died:
July 18, 1817
(aged 41)
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