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81 " I understand Crawford paid you a visit?""Yes.""And was he attentive?""Yes, very.""And has your heart changed towards him?""Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-""Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you.""And I you. "
― Jane Austen , Mansfield Park
82 " …but then I am unlike other people I dare say. "
83 " Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. "
84 " She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. "
85 " She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. "
86 " But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately. "
87 " I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. "
88 " You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at. "
89 " The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. "
90 " Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint "
91 " I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong. "
92 " Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have. "
93 " It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else. "
94 " There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. "
95 " There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion. "
96 " that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) "
97 " None but a woman can teach the science of herself. "
98 " We do not look in great cities for our best morality. "
99 " Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings. "
100 " But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing "