We do not suffer by accident.
JANE AUSTENIn nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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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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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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