Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more...
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I am excessively diverted.
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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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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
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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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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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I should not mind anything at all.
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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.
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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.