And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
JANE AUSTENHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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