The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
JANE AUSTENI will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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