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Her Own Quotes by Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness…
- Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face…
- 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…
- When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and…
- To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it…
- If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
- Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
- Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given…
- She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually…
- She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though…
- But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind,…
- Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct,…
- She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable,…
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