in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
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It was in this reign that Joan of Arc reigned and made such a row among the English.
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My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson's. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. k., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me, "a pleasing looking young woman", that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!
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...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.
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