A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment

Quote by Jane Austen

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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the...

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the...

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...