Jane Austen Quotes I

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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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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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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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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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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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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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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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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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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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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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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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
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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 is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
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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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