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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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...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a...

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...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys...

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

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

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, 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,...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

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...

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...

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

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

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...

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...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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...

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...

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall...

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.