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"50 Jane Austen Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 16 December 1775. Died: 18 July 1817 | Novelist |
Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
Good Having Minds Nobody
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Complain Never Pitied Those
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Affection Better Cases Feels
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Bring Business Does Ever
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Going Mend Month Next
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Body Conduct Every Felt
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Be Humble Difficult Humble Prosperous
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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.

Agreeable Deal Great Great Deal
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Day Fine Fine Day Look
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Been Early Given Life
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Easy Politics Silence Step
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Always Cannot Laughing Man
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Certain Dancing Falling Falling In Love
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Considerable Enhanced Foolish Inconvenience
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Always Ever Incomprehensible Man
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Best Cities Great Look
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Acknowledged Fortune Good Good Fortune
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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.

Believe Clergy Everywhere Found
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Agreeable Always Cares Done
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Best Ever Happiness Heard
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Being Dies Either Human
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Chance Entirely Happiness Marriage
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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

Anything Conceal Knowing Misfortune
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Every Every Man Man Neighborhood
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Dwell Guilt Misery Other
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Been Does Has-Been Having
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Cannot Half One Half Other
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Afraid Always Am Does
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Argument Being Dreadful Favor
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Acquisition Almost Beauty Been
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Busy Life Quick Seems
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Comfort Home Like Nothing
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Correct General Opinion Where
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Cannot Enough Speak Well
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Able About Less Loved
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Cannot Ease Ill Letter
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Another Best Good Like
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Balm Certainly Disappointed Finest
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

All My Life Been Being Life
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Being Crossed Girl Likes
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Less More People Them
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Before Happens She Sometimes
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Any Attend Better Guide
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Gentleman Good Lady Must
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Am Convinced I Am I Can
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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.

Always Attack Cannot Dictated
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Ask Delicacy Flattering Happy
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Charm Equal Heart Tenderness
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Jane Austen Quotes & Sayings