Kindle Quotes

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

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—	Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (via Rachel Dettman)

Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, “is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think…

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—	Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (via Brian R. Cook)

Lord help you! You women are always thinking of men’s being in liquor. Why, you do not suppose a man is overset by a bottle? I am sure of this — that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

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—	Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (via William Bright)

Sir Charles Grandison

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—	Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (via )

attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother

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—	Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (via Shaj)

Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or

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—	Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (via )

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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—	Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (via )

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—	Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (via Alice Chu)

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—	Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (via Alice Chu)

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—	Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (via Alice Chu)