How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENI hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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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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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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I can always live by my pen.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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