I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
JANE AUSTENI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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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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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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