I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
JANE AUSTENSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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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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The less said the better.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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 distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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