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Daily wit and inspiration from Jane Austen, compiled by Lori Smith, author of A Walk with Jane Austen (coming in October '07).
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Blameless
"While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been constantly exceediing it. It had not......
Prosperity and nothingness
"Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life. . ." Persuasion, volume 1, chapter 1 I love......
Years of danger
"She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have......
Only Anne
"His two other children were of very inferior value. . . . Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or......
Vanity, thy name is Sir Walter
"Vanity was the beginning and end of Sir Walter Elliot's character: vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth, and at fifty-four was still a very fine man. . . . He considered the......
Learning to brook being happier than I deserve
Can't resist posting one more from Persuasion today: "'It is a sort of pain, too, which is new to me. I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed. I have valued......
The gravel walk
"There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into the past, more exquisitel...
An overpowering happiness
"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness." Persuasion, volume 2, chapter 11...
Too excellent creature!
"I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do......
I have loved none but you
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought......
You pierce my soul
I don't know how it is that we haven't featured Captain Wentworth's letter here yet. Happy Monday, dear readers! "I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.......
Loving longest
A double-dose of quotes today. First, Persuasion: "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."......
Forced into prudence
"How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! ...
Queen of pity parties
"Mary was happy no longer: she quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got a much better somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for a better also. . . . Anne found a nice......
I would rather be overturned by him
"If I loved a man as she loves the Admiral, I would always be with him, nothing should ever separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else." Louisa Musgrove on Admiral and......
On being a late twenty-something
"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill-health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost."......
A lost man
"'Yes, here I am, Sophia, quite ready to make a foolish match. Anybody between fifteen and thirty may have me for asking. A little beauty, and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a......
Glorying in the sea
"Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was......
The last smiles of the year
Fall has always been my favorite season (although now -- and I have to laugh at myself -- spring and summer are competing for the title. Winter occasionally as well, if it weren't for the horrible darkness). I love that......
Vain opposition
"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be in vain." When Mary does not want Charles to go to dinner at his parents, leaving her with little Charles, who has just fallen and dislocated his collar bone. Persuasion, volume......
