Tag: Jane Austen

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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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.

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One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

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The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.

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There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.

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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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