To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
JANE AUSTENOur scars make us know that our past was for real.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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