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Common Quotes by Jane Austen
- I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
- I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the…
- Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that…
- Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
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