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- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. 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.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- 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 (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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