Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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 may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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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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