To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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The less said the better.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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