Jane Austen Quotes, Thank You Quotes, Daughter Quotes

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

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Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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