What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTENWhat are men to rocks and mountains?
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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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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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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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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