It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENIf I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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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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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.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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