Jane Austen

Love, families, wealth and general observations and guidance in life.

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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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The last-born has as good a right to the pleasures of youth at the first.

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Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction

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It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment.

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It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings

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Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.

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Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason

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A man always imagined a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

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Success supposes endeavour.

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It is surely my duty to discourage such romantic nonsense.

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If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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When the money is once parted with, it never can return

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations

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People themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

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A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white.

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What a difference in the weight of a woman's arm from that of a man!