"I never could be so happy as you.……" — Jane Austen
"I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness."
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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value…
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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