British - Writer | December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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.
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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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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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
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