Jane Austen Quotes, Two Quotes, Ivory Quotes

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

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To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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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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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

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To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

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

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Time will explain.

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Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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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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