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 A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. | Jane Austen |
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion. | Jane Austen |
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. | Jane Austen |
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. | Jane Austen |
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. | Jane Austen |
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me
the trouble of liking them a great deal. | Jane Austen |
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. | Jane Austen |
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. T | Jane Austen |
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. | 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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. | Jane Austen |
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. | Jane Austen |
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. | Jane Austen |
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. | Jane Austen |
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