Jane Austen Quotes
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.