Jane Austen Quotes
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.