Clueless Emma

JANE AUSTEN QUOTE OF THE DAY

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

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I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter.

 

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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all---it is very tiresome.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Store closet it would be charming.

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It was a delightful visit--perfect, in being much too short.

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If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Your letter is come; it came indeed twelve lines ago, but I could not stop to acknowledge it before, & I am glad it did not arrive till I had completed my first sentence, because the sentence had been made since yesterday, & I think forms a very good beginning.

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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

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    I suppose you know, ma'am, that Mr. Ferrars is married.

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

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My black cap was openly admired by Mrs. Lefroy, and secretly I imagine by everybody else in the room.

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Nothing is to be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another. That is a Punishment which you do not deserve.

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There was one gentleman, an officer of the Cheshire, a very good-looking young man, who, I was told, wanted very much to be introduced to me, but as he did not want it quite enough to take much trouble in effecting it, we never could bring it about.

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A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears to me quite indispensable for the person who would do any justice to your clergyman; and I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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She found his manners very pleasing indeed.-The little flaw of having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems to be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.

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"And what are you reading, Miss—?" "Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.

 

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like

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

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I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

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Her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

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The less said the better.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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Everything united in her; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart

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There is nothing like employment, active, indespenable employment, for relieving sorrow.

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I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise

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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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One cannot have too large a party.

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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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You men have none of you any heart

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

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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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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

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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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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. 

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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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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.