Jane Austen Quotes

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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

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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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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen

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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.