How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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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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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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