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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
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I should not mind anything at all.
Jane Austen
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
Jane Austen -
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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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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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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Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
Jane Austen -
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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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
Jane Austen -
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
Jane Austen
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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I will only add, God bless you.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.
Jane Austen