"I do not cough for my own amusement." — Jane Austen
"I do not cough for my own amusement."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
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