General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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I 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.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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