It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENSelf-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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