I was quiet but I was not blind.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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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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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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