Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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