It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Quote by Jane Austen

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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

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...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

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.

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.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to...

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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

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

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good...

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...

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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...

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument...

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

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