I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTENAnd sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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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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