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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.
Written by Jane Austen
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Written by Jane Austen
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Written by Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Written by Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Written by Jane Austen
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Written by Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Written by Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Written by Jane Austen
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Written by Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Written by Jane Austen
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.
Written by Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Written by Jane Austen
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
Written by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Written by Jane Austen
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.
Written by Jane Austen
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.
Written by Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Written by Jane Austen
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.
Written by Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Written by Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Written by Jane Austen
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Written by Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Written by Jane Austen
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Written by Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Written by Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Written by Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Written by Jane Austen
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.
Written by Jane Austen
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Written by Jane Austen

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