Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENThere 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Time will explain.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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