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Jane Austen

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Jane Austen

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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

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Angry people are not always wise.

Jane Austen

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

Jane Austen

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Jane Austen

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Jane Austen

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen