But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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I can always live by my pen.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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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 distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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