Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTENIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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