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Things 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…
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
- If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
- Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
- Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
- The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself,…
- I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible…
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