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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing 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, Pride and Prejudice

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
    Jane Austen

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
    Jane Austen

  • #15
    Jane Austen
    “What strange creatures brothers are!”
    Jane Austen

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
    Jane Austen, Love and Freindship

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
    Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
    Jane Austen

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #23
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #25
    Jane Austen
    “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #26
    Jane Austen
    “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #27
    Jane Austen
    “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #28
    Jane Austen
    “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #29
    E.B. White
    “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #30
    Willa Cather
    “Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
    Willa Cather



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