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Known Quotes by Jane Austen
- From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief…
- No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady…
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a…
- Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same…
- I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love
- Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when…
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little…
- There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper,…
- …she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
- It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any…
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- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch