To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
JANE AUSTENEvery moment had its pleasure and its hope.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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I can always live by my pen.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real.
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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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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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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Time will explain.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I 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.
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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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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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The less said the better.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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An annuity is a very serious business.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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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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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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