A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTENShe was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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 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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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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