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Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England.
* She was the second of seven children born to George and Cassandra Austen.
* Jane Austen began writing at a young age, and her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published in 1811.
* She went on to publish six more novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan.
* Jane Austen died on July 18, 1817, at the age of 41.
* She is considered one of the greatest English novelists of all time.
* Her novels are known for their wit, humor, and sharp social commentary.
* They continue to be popular today and have been adapted into numerous films and television shows.

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen

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.

Jane Austen

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

Jane Austen

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Jane Austen

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Jane Austen

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Jane Austen

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Jane Austen

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Jane Austen

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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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 expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

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.

Jane Austen

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing 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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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Jane Austen

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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