In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
JANE AUSTENBut for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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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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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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 working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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 must have my share in the conversation.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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