Jane Austen
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no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ... 
What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... 
He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ... 
Such property, as well as a gift subsequent and what was given ,to her by her affectionate husband, ... 
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor an... 
She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec... 
WOMEN ON THEIR OWN RUN in Alice’s family. This dawns on her with the unkindness of a heart attack ... 
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any... 
I used to write poetry when I was younger," Jess said. She had kept a notebook by her bed, in case s... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve... 
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. 
But Lucy had been alone too much of her life, and in her loneliness she had constructed a vision of ... 
Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... 
If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowi... 
The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of r... 
Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... 
She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refr... 
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari... 
In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought ... 
Do you feel that you are in a complicated situation today when nothing seems to be going right for y... 
Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... 
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borro... 
She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as... 
She started awake from a dream in which their cave had collapsed and was slowly crushing her to deat... 
They were both comparative mirrors of each other. It was clear to her now more than he had used her ... 
For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... 
While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions... 
And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd be... 
Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school,
And took for truth the test of ridicule;
Lucy saw... 
She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... 
Her eyes watered and she was a foot taller than any of her sisters, mostly because of the length of ... 
As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time ... 
Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa... 
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... 
At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... 
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others a... 
Two-thirty comes during Testifying. It's Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen an... 
Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she... 
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
It was clear to her now, Happiness was a seductive illusion. No one as fucked up as her deserved one... 
Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... 
There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m... 
She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be sepa... 
Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const... 
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. 
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... 