How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENAn annuity is a very serious business.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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