The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENBut indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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The less said the better.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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