A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTENEach found her greatest safety in silence.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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