General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTENThe more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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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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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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