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Turns Quotes by Jane Austen
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
- 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…
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,…
- She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
- It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on…
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