Jane Austen Quotes, Luck Quotes, Triumph Quotes

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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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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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

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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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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “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.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

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

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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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