It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENVanity 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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