“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
—Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: More social capital
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of little fortune, must be in want of more social capital.” — Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: Tenderness of heart
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
—Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: Intolerably stupid
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: Too short
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
—Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: The more you do
”There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
—Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen: Unintelligible
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ”
—Jane Austen.Portrait of Jane Austen, from the memoir by J. E. Austen-Leigh. All other portraits of Austen are generally based on this, which is itself based on a sketch by Cassandra Austen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Jane Austen: Dress and sense
Jane Austen, Watercolour and pencil portrait by her sister Cassandra, 1810 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
—Jane Austen
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Jane Austen: Suffering places
Jane Austen, Watercolour and pencil portrait by her sister Cassandra, 1810 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.” – – –Jane Austen, novelist (1775-1817).
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Voluntary spies
Jane Austen’s Bath Time (Photo credit: gelle.dk)
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ”
—Jane Austen
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Jane Austen: Neighbours
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
– Jane Austen
