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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

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let myself
know
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doesn't
have to be over
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OLASOT My dear Sir.
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JANE AUSTEN From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexe...
JANE AUSTEN There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but...
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN Everything nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept ...
JANE AUSTEN And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well mak...
JANE AUSTEN In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, whe...
JANE AUSTEN Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
JANE AUSTEN What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
JANE AUSTEN She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too c...
JANE AUSTEN She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentl...
JANE AUSTEN Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way
JANE AUSTEN Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lis...
JANE AUSTEN It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
JANE AUSTEN And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not...
JANE AUSTEN Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our m...
JANE AUSTEN I am no novel-reader -- I seldom look into novels -- Do not imagine that I often read novels -- It i...
JANE AUSTEN She was stronger alone…
JANE AUSTEN Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]
JANE AUSTEN Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.
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