If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -'' ''Oh it is only a novel'' replies the young lady while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda '' or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
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. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
Jane Austen
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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