Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENShe was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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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.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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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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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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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 indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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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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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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 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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