Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENTo wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Success supposes endeavour.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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