A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey (1818)
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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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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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