Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
JANE AUSTENWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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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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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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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
JANE AUSTEN