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Jane Austen

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No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor.


— 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.


— Jane Austen


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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.


— Jane Austen


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


— Jane Austen


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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.


— Jane Austen


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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.


— Jane Austen


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


— Jane Austen


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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.


— Jane Austen


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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.


— Jane Austen


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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.


— Jane Austen


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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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