Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Quote by Jane Austen

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at...

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided...

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now...

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there...

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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...

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried...

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of...