She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
JANE AUSTENBut people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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