He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
JANE AUSTENIf I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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