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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.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) Discuss

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.

Jane Austen (1775-1817) Discuss

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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