What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
("Northanger Abbey")
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Well, evil to some is always good to others.Jane Austen
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.
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But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all it is very tiresome.
Jane Austen
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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