Jane Austen Quotes About Literature
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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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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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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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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You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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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.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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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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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
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