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#1

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: jane-austen, money, sense-and-sensibility

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#2

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

tags: humor

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#3

“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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#4

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: austen, mansfield-park, quiet, shy

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#5

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

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#6

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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#7

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

tags: advice-for-daily-living

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#8

“None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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#9

“I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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#10

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#11

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

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#12

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: happiness

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#13

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: life, music

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#14

“Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#15

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#16

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

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#17

“Badly done, Emma!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: mr-knightley

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#18

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: anonymity, obscurity, unsung-heros

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#19

“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#20

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

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#21

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, life

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#22

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

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#23

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: emma, jane-austen

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#24

“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#25

“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#26

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: family, individual, outsider

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#27

“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#28

“Success supposes endeavour.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#29

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: happiness

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#30

“I would much rather have been merry than wise.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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