Category: Author Jane Austen
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 29 | Just Great DataBase
I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed! Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 10 There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind. Jane Austen Persuasion 10 To be disgraced in the eye of the…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 20 | Just Great DataBase
Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 23 In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 23 But to appear happy…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 79 | Just Great DataBase
The world is blinded by his fortune and consequence, or frightened by his high and imposing manners, and sees him only as he chooses to be seen. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 and agreeable Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby’s constancy, could not witness the…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 129 | Just Great DataBase
With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be content; but her own opinion continued the same, and she left disappointed and sorry. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 98 | Just Great DataBase
El peor mal de un carácter indeciso y débil es que jamás se puede contar con él enteramente. Jane Austen Persuasion 0 To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect on the mind. He had meant them to be good, but…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 106 | Just Great DataBase
Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal. Jane Austen Emma 0 There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 59 | Just Great DataBase
Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. 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, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. Jane Austen Persuasion 2 When Mr. Collins could be forgotten,…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 40 | Just Great DataBase
¡Qué agradable es pasar así una velada! Declaro que no hay placer como la lectura. ¡Cuánto más pronto cansa cualquier otra cosa que un libro! Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 5 Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 46 | Just Great DataBase
It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing – whatever it be! Jane Austen Mansfield Park 3 She was of course only too good…
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Jane Austen Quotes – Page 14 | Just Great DataBase
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 44 No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine… But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine… Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 44 my courage always rises…
