It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENI do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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