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“Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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