“the state of her spirits had probably had its share in her indisposition; for she had been feeling neglected, and been struggling against discontent and envy, for some days past … the pain of her mind had been much beyound that in her head.” - mansfield park, jane austen
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“if i could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” - sense and sensibility, jane austen
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“men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.” - emma, jane austen
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“what had she to wish for? nothing, but to grow more worthy of him, whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.” - emma, jane austen
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“but when a young lady is to be a heroine … something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” - northanger abbey, jane austen
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“i cannot fix 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.” - pride & prejudice, jane austen
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“it was so agreeable to her to see him again, and hear him talk, to have her ear amused and her whole comprehension filled by his narratives, that she began particularly to feel how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.” - mansfield park, jane austen
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“a poet in love must be encouraged in both capacities, or neither.” - emma, jane austen
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“her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of particular and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.” - persuasion, jane austen
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“surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. we are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” - persuasion, jane austen
“the folly of not allowing people to be comfortable at home— and the folly of people’s not staying comfortably at home when they can!” - emma, jane austen
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“the simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.” - emma, jane austen
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“and remember that, if you are ever so forward and clever yourselves, you should always be modest; for, much as you know already, there is a great deal more for you to learn.” - mansfield park, jane austen
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“everything will turn to account when love is once set going.” - mansfield park, jane austen
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