The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENGeneral benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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I can always live by my pen.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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The less said the better.
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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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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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