Jane Austen Quotes About Inspiring
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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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 is what I call good company.
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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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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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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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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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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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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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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