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Persuasion

Name: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

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“Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”

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Variant: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
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“Time will explain.”

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“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

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“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.”

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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

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Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
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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.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

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“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

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“… I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall.”

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“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

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