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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me


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JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
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 to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN