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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Sense and Sensibility
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
You have delighted us long enough.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice

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