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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word: supercilious

supercilious 

Definition:	(adjective) Feeling or showing haughty disdain.
Synonyms:	haughty, prideful, sniffy, swaggering, lordly, disdainful
Usage:	He smiled in a supercilious manner and said I had better do as I was asked. Discuss.

QUOTATION: Jane Austen

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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QUOTATION: Jane Austen

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Today’s Quotation: Jane Austen (1775-1817)

 

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory…The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak…We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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My take on this:

We are a memory: A physiological memory beyond the individual’s own life experiences. Like migratory birds that have the memory of their annual migration, we are altogether the actualization and reenactment of all we have memorized. When everything else become unfamiliar, we act upon the ancestral memory built in everyone of us. Instinct is a ancestral package of fundamental memory, still memory.

our own memories are indeed a treasured virtual manuscript: Some share it as stories, some write about it, some others compose music, based on it. In a form or another we all want to share it, and pass it on.

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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