quotation: “With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please…”. Jane Austen

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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quotation: It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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quotation: Jane Austen

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made–when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt–it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

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QUOTATION: Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Quotation of the Day: Jane Austen – On Human Temerity To Adjust and Surmount

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
(from Ch. 5 of Mansfield Park)

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