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Jane Austen Inspirational Quotes (442)

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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. -Elinor Dashwood
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You have delighted us long enough.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing I must write on till I am.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.
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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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