To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTENWhat is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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