British - Writer | December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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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.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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