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Jane Austen
I think I...
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...
To sit in...
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Where an opinion...
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Source: Mary Crawford, in...
Everything nourishes what...
Everything nourishes what is strong already.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
I do not...
I do not want people to be very agreeable, it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...
One cannot be...
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Everybody has their...
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
Source: In 2,715...
Why not seize...
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...
One does not...
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but...
Those who do...
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Source: Pride & Prejudice, 1813.
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A woman especially,...
A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she...
There is nothing...
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Source: In The Harper Book...
Nothing is more...
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an...
A person who...
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Source: Miss...
A large income...
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Source: In The...
A single woman...
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single...
If it was...
'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.'...
An annuity is...
An annuity is a very serious business.
Source: (Mrs Dashwood) Sense and...
All the privilege...
All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...
Business, you know,...
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Source: Emma,...