"One half of the world cannot understand the……" — Jane Austen
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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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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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
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