Jane Austen Quotes
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and 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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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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I should not mind anything at all.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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Know your own happiness.
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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I am excessively diverted.
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
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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.