Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
JANE AUSTENWith women, the heart argues, not the mind.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Almost anything is possible with time.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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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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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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