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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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 (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811

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