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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

~Jane Austen

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: December 16th, 1775

Died: July 18th, 1817

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