To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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