To love is to burn, to be on fire.
JANE AUSTENWith women, the heart argues, not the mind.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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 do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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 should infinitely prefer a book.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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