Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENSilly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Time will explain.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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Vanity 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.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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