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.
JANE AUSTENThe more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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