“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I thank you; but I assure you you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more;'… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest with themselves.” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
