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“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I am excessively diverted.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
― Jane Austen , Persuasion

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Know your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“We do not suffer by accident.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
― Jane Austen

“Beware how you give your heart.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies 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

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
― Jane Austen

“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
― Jane Austen

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park