How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Jane Austen

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Jane Austen

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Beware of the insipid vanities and idle dissipations of the metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton."
"Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? What probability is there of my ever tasting the dissipations of London, the luxuries of Bath, or the stinking fish of Southamption?...

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I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

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Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented them from being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement.

Jane Austen

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Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.

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I understand Crawford paid you a visit?"
"Yes."
"And was he attentive?"
"Yes, very."
"And has your heart changed towards him?"
"Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-"
"Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you."
"And I you.

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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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JANE: "Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"

ELIZABETH: "I believe it must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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