It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
JANE AUSTENI should infinitely prefer a book.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Time will explain.
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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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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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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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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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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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