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.
JANE AUSTENWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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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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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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