Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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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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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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