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Jane Austen’s words from her novels and letters ❤️
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#Emma
12 months ago
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without music, life would be a blank to me
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#Emma
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As to the mode of our travelling to town, I want to go in a stage-coach, but Frank will not let me.
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#letters1796
3 days ago
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Though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.
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#PrideandPrejudice
5 days ago
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May she always be poor, if she can employ her riches no better.
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#SenseandSensibility
6 days ago
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Your peace will not be shipwrecked as mine has been.
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#Persuasion
7 days ago
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By the by, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire, and can drink as much wine as I like.
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#letter1813
9 days ago
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I have often observed it before—she likes to go her own way to work; she does not like to be dictated to;
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#MansfieldPark
10 days ago
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I am no advocate for entire seclusion. I think, on the contrary, when people shut themselves up entirely from society, it is a very bad thing;
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#Emma
12 days ago
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I must struggle through my sorrows and difficulties as I can.
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#MansfieldPark
13 days ago
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St Columba’s Church of Scotland
15 days ago
The Jane Austen Society’s London Branch meets at St Columba’s Church — a fitting setting in the heart of London for lovers of Austen’s wit, wisdom and world. Join us to share conversation, tea and timeless literature.
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in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that she had been before
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#NorthangerAbbey
14 days ago
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Do not pretend, with your sweet temper, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go its own way.
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#Emma
15 days ago
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Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that can be spared from me. You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas.
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#PrideandPrejudice
16 days ago
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She sighed for the air, the liberty, the quiet of the country;
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#SenseandSensibility
17 days ago
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I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others; of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect.
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#LadySusan
18 days ago
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Boze the Library Owl
20 days ago
Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.
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I do believe those are best off that have fewest servants.
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#Sanditon
20 days ago
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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#Emma
21 days ago
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
24 days ago
If you find yourself in the NJ suburbs next month, come to my talk! You can register at
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I never mind going through anything, where a friend is concerned.
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#NorthangerAbbey
24 days ago
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I am so ill I can hardly speak.
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#Persuasion
25 days ago
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Modesty, and all that, is very well in its way, but really a little common honesty is sometimes quite as becoming.
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#NorthangerAbbey
26 days ago
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If people do but know how to set about it, every comfort may be as well enjoyed in a cottage as in the most spacious dwelling.
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#SenseandSensibility
27 days ago
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It is a great while since we have had any star-gazing.
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#MansfieldPark
28 days ago
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A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
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#Emma
29 days ago
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The distance is nothing, when one has a motive;
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#PrideandPrejudice
30 days ago
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It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it.
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#Persuasion
about 1 month ago
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We must be decided, and without the loss of another minute. Every minute is valuable.
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#Persuasion
about 1 month ago
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When you receive this, our guests will be all gone or going; and I shall be left to the comfortable disposal of my time, to ease of mind from the torments of rice puddings and apple dumplings, and probably to regret that I did not take more pains to please them all.
#JaneAusten
#letters1807
about 1 month ago
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I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge;
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#NorthangerAbbey
about 1 month ago
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When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.
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#SenseandSensibility
about 1 month ago
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I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one;
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#MansfieldPark
about 1 month ago
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I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment.
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#Emma
about 1 month ago
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
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#Persuasion
about 1 month ago
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The men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
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#NorthangerAbbey
about 1 month ago
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Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this.
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#PrideandPrejudice
about 1 month ago
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Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!
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#SenseandSensibility
about 1 month ago
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My gown is to be trimmed everywhere with white ribbon plaited on somehow or other. She says it will look well. I am not sanguine. They trim with white very much.
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#letters1813
about 1 month ago
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They must all go to Brighton. That is the place to get husbands.
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#PrideandPrejudice
about 1 month ago
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They are always acting upon motives of vanity
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#MansfieldPark
about 1 month ago
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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.
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#Persuasion
about 2 months ago
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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#Emma
about 2 months ago
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Nobody can tell how much I hate quarrelling.
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#TheWatsons
about 2 months ago
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His temper is not happy, and something has now occurred to ruffle it in an uncommon degree;
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#NorthangerAbbey
about 2 months ago
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There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.
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#SenseandSensibility
about 2 months ago
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This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of.
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#PrideandPrejudice
about 2 months ago
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I am grown too old to go out more than three times a week;
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#MansfieldPark
about 2 months ago
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He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion.
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#Persuasion
about 2 months ago
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Well! evil to some is always good to others.
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#Emma
about 2 months ago
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This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before, and must relieve myself by writing to you, who I know will enter into all my feelings.
#JaneAusten
#LadySusan
about 2 months ago
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