There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:…

Quote by Jane Austen

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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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in...

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...

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed....

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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....

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person...

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...

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished...

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished...

Curiosity killed the cat because he wanted to know if it really had 9 lives.

Curiosity killed the cat because he wanted to know if it really had 9 lives.