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.

Jane Austen
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?

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

Jane Austen
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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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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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