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Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.
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“Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (August 1796) on arriving in London [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1796-09-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1798-10-27) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-18) about her nephew George [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1798-12-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1799-01-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1799-01-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1799-05-17) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived — my breakfast supplied only two ideas — that the rolls were good and the butter bad.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1799-06-19) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall — and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1799-06-17) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn — almost too handsome to be looked at.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (November 1800) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1800-11-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1800-11-20) on people she met at a ball [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1800-11-25) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1801-01-03) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1801-01-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1801-05-12) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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“I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1801-05-12) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“It would have amused you to see our progress. We went up by Sion Hill, and returned across the fields. In climbing a hill Mrs. Chamberlayne is very capital; I could with difficulty keep pace with her, yet would not flinch for the world. On plain ground I was quite her equal. And so we posted away under a fine hot sun, she without any parasol or any shade to her hat, stopping for nothing, and crossing the churchyard at Weston with as much expedition as if we were afraid of being buried alive.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1801-05-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1801-05-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1807-01-07) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1807-02-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“We spent Friday evening with our friends at the boarding-house, and our curiosity was gratified by the sight of their fellow-inmates, Mrs. Drew and Miss Hook, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Fitzhugh; the latter is brother to Mrs. Lance, and very much the gentleman. He has lived in that house more than twenty years, and poor man, is so totally deaf that they say he could not hear a cannon, were it fired close to him; having no cannon at hand to make the experiment, I took it for granted, and talked to him a little with my fingers, which was funny enough.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1808-12-27) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
“I am gratified by her having pleasure in what I write, but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning criticism may not hurt my style, by inducing too great a solicitude. I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my ideas flow as fast as the rain in the store-closet it would be charming.”
— Jane Austen
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Quote source: Letter (1809-01-24) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
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