The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENLaugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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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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