Quotes
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
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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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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
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Mansfield Park
NOVEL
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound..
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
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Emma
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen
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Emma
NOVEL
What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.
James Joyce
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Ulysses
NOVEL