Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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