A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTENIt sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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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 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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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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