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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.


Jane Austen

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JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself.
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JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care...
JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
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JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN