I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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 could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
JANE AUSTEN