I should infinitely prefer a book.
JANE AUSTENTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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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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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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I can always live by my pen.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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Time will explain.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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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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