Jane Austen Quotes About Life
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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