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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 Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel...
JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
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.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
JANE ADDAMS