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About Jane Austen

With a razor-sharp wit,she masterfully chronicled the lives and loves of the English gentry, forever changing the novel. Her timeless heroines and brilliant social satire in classics like Pride and Prejudice continue to captivate millions.

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

Jane Austen 14

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Jane Austen 9

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen 10

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

Jane Austen 11

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Jane Austen 13

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...

Jane Austen 12

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being...

Jane Austen 8

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen 11

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