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.
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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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Success supposes endeavour.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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