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One 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…
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
- If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of…
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
- One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
- Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
- One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
- It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
- In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party .…
- Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can…
- One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
- Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of…
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than…
- 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…
- The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we…
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