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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
― Jane Austen

“I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
― Jane Austen