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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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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
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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
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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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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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, first line

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

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