Jane Austen Quotes

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
• 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…
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good…
• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
• If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without…
• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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