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Jane Austen Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817

Birthday: December 16

Death: July 18

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

topic: Selfish, Men, Feelings, Disdain, Groundwork, Pride And Prejudice Book, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Antipathy

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