Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Quote by Jane Austen

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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.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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...

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...

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself....

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...

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...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of...

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.