There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Quotes by Jane Austen
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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.
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.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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.
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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.
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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