Jane Austen

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• Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their com plexion.

• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educ...

• 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, ...

• What did she say?—Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.—She said enough to show there need not be despair—and to invite hi...

• To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a be...

• There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

• There are such beings in the World perhaps, one in a Thousand, as the Creature You and I should think perfection, Where Grace &...

• Single Women have a dreadful propensity for being poor—which is one very strong argument in favor of Matrimony.

• Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread ...

• Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a...

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