But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTENEach found her greatest safety in silence.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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The less said the better.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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