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• Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well she can…imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms.

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• But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…it tells me nothing that does not vex or weary me…the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

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• Oh! it is only a novel !…only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

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• Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor—which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

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• What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow?—How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour ?

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• Goldsmith tells us, when a lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

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• I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. It depends upon the character of those who handle it.

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• A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

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• She would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.

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• I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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• I must have a London audience. I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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• Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of an Englishman’s constitution.His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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• Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many characters—Not a tolerable woman’s part in the play.

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure.

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• There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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• What are men to rocks and mountains?Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travelers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything.We will know where we have gone—we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes,mountains, and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarreling about its relative situation.

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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.

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Jane Austen (192)

Birth:	16th December, 1775
Death:	18th July, 1817
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

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Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She was an English novelist. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. She wrote several novels include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan.

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