But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTENI may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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 was quiet but I was not blind.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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