Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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