Jane Austen Quotes, Battle Quotes, Former Quotes

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

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It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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