He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
JANE AUSTENA lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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