"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable,……" — Jane Austen
"The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!"
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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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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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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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively,
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