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Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their com plexion.
By Jane Austen
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educ...
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, ...
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What did she say?—Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.—She said enough to show there need not be despair—and to invite hi...
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To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a be...
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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There are such beings in the World perhaps, one in a Thousand, as the Creature You and I should think perfection, Where Grace &...
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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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Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread ...
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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...
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Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a...
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Mrs. John Lyford is so much pleased with the state of widowhood as to be going to put in for being a widow again; she...
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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-up...
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any...
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In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete; being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity...
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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nob...
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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choo...
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I am pleased that you have learned to love a hyacinth. The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in ...
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further exp...
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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is eq...
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so simi...
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Do not be in a hurry; depend upon it, the right Man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years,...
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her reg...
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A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears...
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
By Jane Austen