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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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    Jane Austen
    “My idea of good company...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.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion
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    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: books, library, reading
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    Jane Austen
    “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.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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    Jane Austen
    “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: happiness, laughter, smiles
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: love, romance
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    Jane Austen
    “A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
    It is something to think of”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: quotes-to-define-my-life
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... 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 humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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    Jane Austen
    “Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: joy-of-reading
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    Jane Austen
    “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: elizabeth-bennet
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    Jane Austen
    “Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: henry-tilney
    180 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: love
    3130 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: jane-austen
    1363 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: college, life, write
    375 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: writing
    171 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: heart, paper
    158 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: moonlight, write
    105 likes

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    Dodie Smith
    “Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: friendship, loss, sadness
    609 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: l-m-montgomerymontg
    127 likes

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  • #23
    Dodie Smith
    “So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
    ― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
    tags: england, melancholy
    87 likes

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  • #24
    L.M. Montgomery
    “When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”
    ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: wisdom
    321 likes

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    L.M. Montgomery
    “It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: l-m-montgomery, nonsense
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: l-m-montgomery, words
    110 likes

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    Shannon Hale
    “They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.”
    ― Shannon Hale, Enna Burning
    127 likes

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  • #29
    Shannon Hale
    “Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.”
    ― Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days
    tags: understanding-others, wisdom
    615 likes

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  • #30
    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
    tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess
    1921 likes



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