They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Quote by Jane Austen

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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...

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...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more,...

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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

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

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...

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do...

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...

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...

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...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your...

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...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a...

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always...

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport...

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport...

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.