How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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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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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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