We must be serious and decided; for after all, the person who has contracted debts must pay them;
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

But I must write no more. The children have been wanting me this half hour.
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When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial;
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

I feel a strong persuasion, this morning, that I shall soon be abroad. I ought to travel. I am tired of doing nothing. I want a change.
#JaneAusten #Emma

I have been quite wretched without you.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

I feel quite stupid. It must be sitting up so late last night.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.
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There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

No coffee, I thank you, for me—never take coffee.—A little tea if you please, sir, by and bye,—no hurry.
#JaneAusten #Emma

The badness of the weather disconcerted an excellent plan of mine,—that of calling on Miss Beckford again; but from the middle of the day it rained incessantly.
#JaneAusten #letters1811

Lucy does not want sense, and that is the foundation on which every thing good may be built.
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I have not had a creature call on me since the second week in January
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

Nothing in the way of pleasure can ever be given up by the young men of this age.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

My mother has had a very good night, and feels much better to-day.
#JaneAusten #Letters1798

I have my usual luck: I am always out of the way when any thing desirable is going on;
#JaneAusten #Persuasion

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

- Pride and Prejudice, 1st published January 28th 1813

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When an old lady plays the fool, it is not in the course of nature that she should suffer from it many years.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons

She certainly has a little spirit of secrecy, and independence, and nonsense, about her, which I would advise her to get the better of.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

Those who do not complain are never pitied.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

Presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it;
#JaneAusten #SensesndSensibility

You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion;
#JaneAusten #Emma

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
#JaneAusten #Emma

You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

Well, mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow night. A’n’t I a good boy?
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