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Jane Austen Quotes
Brief author info: Jane Austen (1775-1817) English writer. Famous chiefly for six novels, four of which (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma) were first published anonymously; two (Persuasion, Northanger Abbey), posthumously.
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Angry people are not always wise.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant, but she will swallow anything.
If a woman doubts to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought refuse him. If she can hesitate as to "Yes," she ought to say "No," directly.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
Friend Quote
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Love Quote
Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.
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