Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Quote by Jane Austen

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

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is...

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...

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.

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.

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

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...

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...

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...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen...

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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.

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...