I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTENI declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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