Jane Austen Quotes

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

  

  Jane Austen
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