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Upon Quotes by Jane Austen
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
- Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the…
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
- [I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
- 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…
- I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all…
- Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
- She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing,…
- We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
- Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose…
- Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
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