How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTEN
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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The less said the better.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Time will explain.
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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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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