Jane Austen
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
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"It is always the silly things that change our lives."
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
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"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
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"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others."
Jane Austen
"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."
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"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures."
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"We are all fools in love."
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"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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