Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Jane Austen

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Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?

Jane Austen

Mots clés church

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The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Jane Austen

Mots clés reading

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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

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We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Jane Austen

Mots clés advice love romance

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Jane Austen

Mots clés inspirational

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Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?"
Darcy: "Not if I can help it!"

Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies."
Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

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I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it is the same with them all; they are all knocked about, and exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral Baldwin's age.

Jane Austen

Mots clés humor sea austen persuasion jane sir-walter

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for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the giddiness and false steps of many.

Jane Austen

Mots clés humor social-climbing

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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Jane Austen

Mots clés humor mr-darcy pride

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