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181 " It's a truth universally acknowledged... "
― Jane Austen
182 " She wished such words unsaid with all her heart "
― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park
183 " …she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. "
― Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice
184 " In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony... "
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility
185 " If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for. "
186 " An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. "
― Jane Austen , Persuasion
187 " Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. "
― Jane Austen , Emma
188 " I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. "
189 " I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this. "
190 " His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain. "
― Jane Austen , Northanger Abbey
191 " Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves. "
― Jane Austen , Love and Freindship
192 " Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does not vex me in the least; though perhaps I may suffer most from it after all; for I shall not only be obliged to eat up all the Victuals I have dressed already, but must if Henry should recover (which however is not very likely) dress as much for you again; or should he die (as I suppose he will) I shall still have to prepare a Dinner for you whenever you marry any one else. So you see that tho perhaps for the present it may afflict you to think of Henry’s sufferings, yet I dare say he’ll die soon and then his pain will be over and you will be easy, whereas my Trouble will last much longer for work as hard as I may, I am certain that the pantry cannot be cleared in less than a fortnight "
193 " Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her. "
194 " Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured? "
195 " Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for her not to be happy. "
196 " We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. "
197 " There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature "
198 " They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many. "
199 " What are men to rocks and mountains? "
200 " Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? "