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• But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

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• …She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

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• …Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

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• It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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  A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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  A large income is the best recipe for happiness i ever heard of.

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

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• But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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

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  If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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• There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.

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  We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

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• To be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.

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• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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• I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

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• It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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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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