For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Quote by Jane Austen

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please,...

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only...

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...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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

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

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

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,...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something...

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she...

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she...

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the...

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the...