Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.

Jane Austen

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No, indeed, I shall grant you nothing. I always take the part of my own sex. I do indeed. I give you notice-- You will find me a formidable antagonist on that point. I always stand up for women.

Jane Austen


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Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

Jane Austen


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I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen


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But," said I, "to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.

Jane Austen


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[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing feared of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.

Jane Austen

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When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.

Jane Austen


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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Jane Austen

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one day in the country is exactly like another.

Jane Austen


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If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.

Jane Austen


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