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Short Quotes by Jane Austen
- She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
- 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…
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
- There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others…
- I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any…
- It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.
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