Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817)

· 1775 - 1817 · 362 kata bijak

Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Jane Austen

Pendidikan

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

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Keberanian

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.""You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)

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Jane Austen

Persahabatan

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

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Kehidupan

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.""I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

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Kehidupan

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

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Kehidupan

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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Kehidupan

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

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Pendidikan

... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given.

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Kreativitas

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

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Kehidupan

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

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Kreativitas

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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