I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTENSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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Time will explain.
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I can always live by my pen.
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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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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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There 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.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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