It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
JANE AUSTENThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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 cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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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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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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