Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTENHow clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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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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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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 was quiet but I was not blind.
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The less said the better.
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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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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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I must have my share in the conversation.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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