The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love

Jane Austen

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Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. Thank Heaven! I am going tommorow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense to recommend him. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.

Jane Austen

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It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

Tag: truth gossip rubbish hearsay

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The most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all.

Jane Austen

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You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Jane Austen

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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Jane Austen

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Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

Jane Austen

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He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.

Jane Austen

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Of all horrid things, leave-taking is the worst.

Jane Austen

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Jane Austen

Tag: love

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