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.
JANE AUSTENAn annuity is a very serious business.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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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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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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