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“She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“I have no talent for certainty.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice