I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTENI must have my share in the conversation.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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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 have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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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 difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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The less said the better.
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