Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENThe enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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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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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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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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