Tag: Jane Austen
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen