I should infinitely prefer a book.
JANE AUSTENI must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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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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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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