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- The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Sense and Sensibility, 1811
- To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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