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We cannot help ourselves.We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.You are forced on exertion.You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
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Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well she can…imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms.
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Birth: | 16th December, 1775 |
Death: | 18th July, 1817 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist |
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She was an English novelist. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. She wrote several novels include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan.
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