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977f03c
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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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books
humor
classic
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Jane Austen |
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a0204d4
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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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love
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Jane Austen |
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c8d9133
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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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library
reading
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Jane Austen |
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39f2675
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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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romantic
women
love
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Jane Austen |
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a3cf84d
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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mr-darcy
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Jane Austen |
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2414ee5
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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people
humor
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Jane Austen |
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d814cea
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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requirements
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Jane Austen |
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aa1c4ed
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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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marriage
opening-lines
wife
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Jane Austen |
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42ce5d1
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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jane-austen
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Jane Austen |
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a0a51ea
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Angry people are not always wise.
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jane-austen
wisdom
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Jane Austen |
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5be1eda
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I cannot fix on 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.
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romance
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Jane Austen |
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d82616b
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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vanity
pride
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Jane Austen |
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3459977
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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stereotypes
men
equality
feminism
women-s-rights
self-determination
independence
women
reason
empowerment
strength
rationality
social-norms
flattery
misogyny
hypocrisy
double-standards
gender
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Jane Austen |
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fc837c8
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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Jane Austen |
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c5a4a1d
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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rocks
mountains
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Jane Austen |
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13dd10a
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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stubbornness
self-determination
independence
women
fear
empowerment
strength
elizabeth-bennet
intimidation
dignity
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Jane Austen |
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78947fa
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I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none bu..
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Jane Austen |
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e3c53db
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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mortification
injury
forgiveness
pride
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Jane Austen |
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4cd7eab
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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Jane Austen |
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89a433d
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Jane Austen |
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acdf961
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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Jane Austen |
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09c3b49
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Jane Austen |
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fb1c9b4
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Jane Austen |
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1adc072
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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Jane Austen |
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faec5cd
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Jane Austen |
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b45bb46
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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Jane Austen |
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2fd1594
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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pride-and-prejudice
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Jane Austen |
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59b0205
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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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laughter
smiles
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Jane Austen |
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a4d869d
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
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Jane Austen |
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0338a06
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My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.
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jane-austen
good-company
persuasion
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Jane Austen |
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ee52128
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From the very beginning-- from the first moment, I may almost say-- of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I c..
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Jane Austen |
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c96ca8d
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Jane Austen |
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5a33f80
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Jane Austen |
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8e2eec7
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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past
remembrance
pleasure
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Jane Austen |
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e632c6d
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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Jane Austen |
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d210839
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We are all fools in love
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romance-novels
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Jane Austen |
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57ed5a4
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, 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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reading
novels
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Jane Austen |
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1e73467
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding-- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost for..
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temper
pride-and-prejudice
mr-darcy
flaws
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Jane Austen |
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9a027c9
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. 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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marriage
proposals
parents
husbands
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Jane Austen |
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eaa2554
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Jane Austen |
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d3bac60
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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romance
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Jane Austen |
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ee1fd42
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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Jane Austen |
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0ae17db
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He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
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Jane Austen |
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b9de1e9
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Jane Austen |