Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
JANE AUSTENThere 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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We do not suffer by accident.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.
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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 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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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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