How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTENPerhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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