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Quote by Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a gir

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. – Jane Austen

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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