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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.
Jane Austen
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Jane Austen
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
Jane Austen
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