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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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...

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,...

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...

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing...

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing...

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...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

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,...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is...

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer...

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.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

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.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.