From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
Jane AustenHe is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
Jane AustenStichwörter: feminism
How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our aquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.
Jane AustenFriendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane AustenStichwörter: jane-austen northanger-abbey
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane AustenStichwörter: intelligence reason opposition rationality compliments agreement discussion disdain
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
Jane AustenYou must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane AustenStichwörter: past pleasure elizabeth-bennet remembrance
A man," said he, "must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow; I could not do such a thing. It is the greatest absurdity--Actually snowing at this moment!--The folly of not allowing people to be comfortable at home--and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!
Jane AustenStichwörter: weather
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Jane AustenStichwörter: inspirational jane-austen comfort pride-and-prejudice
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Jane AustenStichwörter: love requirements
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