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Mean Quotes by Jane Austen
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every…
- 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…
- And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop…
- We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and…
- My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my…
- I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying,…
- Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose…
- I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call…
- What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
- My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the…
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
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- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams