It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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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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The less said the better.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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