Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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