The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENLaugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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I can always live by my pen.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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