Tag: Jane Austen
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen
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No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
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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
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen