To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Quote by Jane Austen

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor

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...

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...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel,...

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

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

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better...

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better...