Quotes by Jane Austen

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

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There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

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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.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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“You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.”

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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.”

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“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

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