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Understanding Quotes by Jane Austen
- She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
- Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much,…
- I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little…
- I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
- To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
- A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition…
- 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…
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