A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTENVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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