It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTENThere are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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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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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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