There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
JANE AUSTENNothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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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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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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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 may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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