Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTENLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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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 was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTEN