Jane Austen Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Stupid Quotes

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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

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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

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The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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She attracted him more than he liked.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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Evil to some is always good to others

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

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It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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