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Jane Austen

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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.


— Jane Austen


#life-lessons #life

I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.


— Jane Austen


#people #society #thinking #life

Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened... It is impossible that he should still love me.


— Jane Austen


#love

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.


— Jane Austen


#insincerity #marriage #marriage

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.


— Jane Austen


#marriage

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love


— Jane Austen


#poetry #food

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.


— Jane Austen


#life

Nothing can be changed by changing the face,but everything can be changed by facing the change!!Just think about it.  


— Jane Austen


#change

...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!


— Jane Austen


#family

Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.


— Jane Austen


#friendship






About Jane Austen

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Did you know about Jane Austen?

Austen's letter marked "Declined by Return of Post". It is unlike any of Austen's other works. Marriage was impractical as both Lefroy and Austen must have known.

She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.

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