The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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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One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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It’s such a happiness when good people get together.
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The less said the better.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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