How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
JANE AUSTENBut for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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I can always live by my pen.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
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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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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.
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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 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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My heart is, and always will be, yours.
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