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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.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
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.
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN, Emma
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
One cannot have too large a party.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park
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