To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENIn nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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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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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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 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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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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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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