An annuity is a very serious business.
JANE AUSTEN
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Time will explain.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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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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It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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