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Jane Austen

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But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.


— Jane Austen


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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.


— Jane Austen


#does #having #less #love #nothing

I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]


— Jane Austen


#love

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet


— Jane Austen


#romance #humor

Those who do not complain are never pitied.


— Jane Austen


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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.


— Jane Austen


#individual #outsider #family

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.


— Jane Austen


#pride-and-prejudice #love

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.


— Jane Austen


#life

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.


— Jane Austen


#girls #humor #mean #ugly #funny

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect


— Jane Austen


#expectations #hope #love #wish #love






About Jane Austen

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Did you know about Jane Austen?

Austen's letter marked "Declined by Return of Post". It is unlike any of Austen's other works. Marriage was impractical as both Lefroy and Austen must have known.

She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

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