We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Quote by Jane Austen

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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.

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

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

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

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

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a...

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits,...

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits,...

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...

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...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own...

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...

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.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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

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

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as...

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as...