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Jane Austen quotes (17) There is safety in reserve but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. Jane Austen Category: Safety Why not seize the pleasure at once how often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparations. Jane Austen Category: Opportunity A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill. Jane Austen Category: Unsorted 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 Category: Fortune A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen Category: Happiness There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen Category: Home One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen Category: Pleasure One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. Jane Austen Category: Insults Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen Category: Right You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian but never to admit them in your sight or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. Jane Austen Category: Forgive Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor. Jane Austen Category: Potential Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen Category: Complacency A woman especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything should conceal it as well as she can. Jane Austen Category: Know What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen Category: Weather It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. Jane Austen Category: Diet I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them. Jane Austen Category: Agreement For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen Category: Gossip |
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