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.
JANE AUSTENLet us have the luxury of silence.
More Jane Austen Quotes
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It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman’s daughter; so far we are equal.
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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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