It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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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 are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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I can always live by my pen.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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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 will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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