I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTENShe hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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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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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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The less said the better.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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