To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTENOne man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Time will explain.
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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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Almost anything is possible with time.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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