How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENFull many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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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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Time will explain.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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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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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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