Tag: Jane Austen
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.
Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Jane Austen
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
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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
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen