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“She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.” quote by Jane Austen — Download Open image

“She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

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“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the…

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“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

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“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

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“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

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“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…

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