General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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 enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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