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“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

Book:Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)

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Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)

The Collected Works (Complete Editions) is a compilation that brings together several renowned novels, including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park. This collection offers readers the opportunity to explore the author's most celebrated works in a single, comprehensive volume. more

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen, born on December 16, 1775, and died on July 18, 1817, was a renowned English novelist of the 19th century. Known for her exquisite psychological portrayals and satirical humor, Austen's works mainly revolve around rural life in England, depicting the customs and interpersonal relationships of the time. Her representative works include 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility'. more

“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.”

Said Earth Process Fire Greater Four Wind Trump Rain Cards Suits Everlasting Pointing Shuffling

Book:The Greater Trumps

Source: The Greater Trumps

“Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.”

Spirit Pure Mathematics Mathematical

Book:Descent Into Hell

Source: Descent Into Hell

“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.”