General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTENHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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The less said the better.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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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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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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