Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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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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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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