To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTENIf I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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