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A - Jane Austen
My third year ... and let me see if you can guess which is my theme? If I say Jane Austen what comes to your mind? Yes, female author. Yes, famous. So? Right! My selection of 28 famous female authors.
Since this year the challenge has also a selection of themes, I focused on miscelanous since to be honest I did not know where this would fit.
From her vast work I have chosen some of my favourite quotes from Pride and Prejudice:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
“Which do
you mean?” and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till
catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, “She is tolerable; but
not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give
consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better
return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with
me.”
Elizabeth
was much too embarrassed to say a word. After a short pause, her companion
added, “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what
they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are
unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”
Elizabeth feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his
situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very
fluently, gave him to understand, that her sentiments had undergone so material
a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with
gratitude and pleasure, his present assurances.
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