Jane Austen Quotes, Aunt Quotes

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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She was stronger alone.

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

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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 peculiar 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.

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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

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Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.

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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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

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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

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I am all astonishment.

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