The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
JANE AUSTENIn vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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