Quotes by Jane Austen

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

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“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

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“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

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“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

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“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

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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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