Jane Austen

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen was an English novelist known for her keen social commentary and exploration of love, particularly in her influential works like 'Pride and Prejudice.'

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Born
December 16, 1775
Died
July 18, 1817
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782
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#27

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"I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."

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"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 talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

Song Book Men
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"If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate."

Girl Education Book
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"I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any."

Knowing Six Wonder
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy"

Library Neglect Darcy
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"Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford."

Men Killing Stage
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"I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it."

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"Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion."

Impossible Silent Feels
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"They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future."

Reflection Sorrow Admitting
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"There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."

Stupid Prejudice Common
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

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"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

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"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 to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want."

Strong Evil Heaven
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"The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."

Healthy London Truth Is
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"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."

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"Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."

Months Firsts Prejudice
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"You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."

Prejudice Worthy Please
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

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