Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENFull many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Time will explain.
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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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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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