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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

~Jane Austen

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The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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