Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTENKnow your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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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 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 are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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 have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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