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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

~Jane Austen

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Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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