Jane Austen
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
— Jane Austen
A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.
— Jane Austen
Affectation of candor is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.
— Jane Austen
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
— Jane Austen
After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they were never exposed.
— Jane Austen
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
— Jane Austen
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
— Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
— Jane Austen
Alas! With all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.
— Jane Austen
All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
— Jane Austen
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