But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

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From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Jane Austen

Mots clés antipathy

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Jane Austen

Mots clés jane-austen

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

Mots clés literature

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

Jane Austen

Mots clés elizabeth-bennet jane-austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Mots clés classics

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Jane Austen

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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"
Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it."
Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

Jane Austen

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