Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
JANE AUSTENIn 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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