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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Jane Austen

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
JANE AUSTEN

Confess Herself Hope Reason She Wise
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN

Healing Over Pain Pleasure Remember
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Book Declare Enjoyment House Library Reading
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN

Happiness Hear Income Money Recipe
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Hate Lady Live Water Women Women Empowerment
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Opinion Person Pride Proud Vain Vanity
We do not suffer by accident.
JANE AUSTEN

Accident Break Up Hurt Intention One Liner Suffering
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTEN

Break Up Healing Heart Lost One Liner Self Control
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.
JANE AUSTEN

Attempt Courage Determination Freedom Rise Strength
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
JANE AUSTEN

Afraid Alive Dead Tree
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
JANE AUSTEN

Couple Imperfection Love Perfection Romantic Valentine
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
JANE AUSTEN

Foundation Love Romance
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
JANE AUSTEN

Character Friendship Love People
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
JANE AUSTEN

Apple Consider Domestic Food Happiness
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN

Courtesy Giving People Respect
An annuity is a very serious business.
JANE AUSTEN

Business Money One Liner Serious

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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