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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.

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Jane Austen's Popular Quotes

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

- Jane Austen

I am excessively diverted.

- Jane Austen

How can I dispose of myself with it?

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

- Jane Austen

Time did not compose her.

- Jane Austen

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

- Jane Austen

Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humb…

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainte…

- Jane Austen

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

- Jane Austen
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