Jane Austen Quotes, Evening Quotes

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

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We are all fools in love.

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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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