I 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.
JANE AUSTENAngry people are not always wise.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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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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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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