I've been used to consider poetry as the food of love " Mr.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." Eliza

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A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Mots clés inspirational-life

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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

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His temper might perhaps be a little soured [...]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like,

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While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared...The only time that I ever really suffered in body or mid, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Jane Austen

Mots clés writing-philosophy

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Jane Austen

Mots clés trust

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

Jane Austen

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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Jane Austen

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They say that there are a prodigious number of birds hereabouts this year, so that perhaps I may kill a few.

Jane Austen

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