I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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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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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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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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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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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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When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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There 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.
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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