To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTENThere are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Time will explain.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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.
JANE AUSTEN