She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
JANE AUSTENI 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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I can always live by my pen.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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When I fall in love, it will be forever.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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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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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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