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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

— Jane Austen

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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Emma (1815)

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