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• Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object ; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness,must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

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• From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.—Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

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• Mr Wick ham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends—whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

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• Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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• It is not  time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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• On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

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• We met…Dr Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her—she was only an Object of Contempt.

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• It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself—we fainted alternately on the sofa.

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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.

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• History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in…. I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all – it is very tiresome.

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• Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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• They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.

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

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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.

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• How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! 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.

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• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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• It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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• I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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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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