Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTENSelf-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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