Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
JANE AUSTENA large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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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 a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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