Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENThe Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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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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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.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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Angry people are not always wise.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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