Quotes by Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

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

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to...

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has...

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a...

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

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

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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is...

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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