A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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