To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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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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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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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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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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