If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen


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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
- Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

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That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful-- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex." ~Mary Bennett, P

Jane Austen


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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Jane Austen

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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life."
"I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Jane Austen

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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life,

Jane Austen

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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

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Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Jane Austen


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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Jane Austen


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