The one claim I shall make for my own .. Jane Austen

The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.

Jane Austen

Profession: Author
Nationality: British

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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive.

Her not objecting, does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself -- sense or feeling.

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His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.

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