She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
JANE AUSTENAn annuity is a very serious business.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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