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Being Quotes by Jane Austen
- 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…
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
- Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the…
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of…
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