Jane Austen: Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit...

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

Jane Austen

darcy laughing world

She was stronger alone.

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stronger

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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wealth littles giving

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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eye sleep morning

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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admire sincere mind

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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incivility prejudice essence

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

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girl giving thinking

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

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cures given found

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

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teach

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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mr-knightley difficulty trying

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

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deference disgusted thinking

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

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writing laughing people

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

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cold-hearted selfish men

I love you. Most ardently.

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love-you

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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mansfield-park ideas

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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regret bears littles

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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lizzy deserve-you cases

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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mrs-bennet faces believe

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

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mother morning children

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Jane Austen

falling-in-love different thinking

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.