Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
JANE AUSTENThe 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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Time will explain.
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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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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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