British - Writer | December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
UnderstandWillOppositionVain
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
WomenManWillTwoUsedBeen
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
WomenMenWorldDeservePrettyMany
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
SpeakEnoughWellCannotWell Enough
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
OthersFollowTurnWithoutEnjoyment
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
RespectBodyRightConductEvery
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
LifeNatureEarlyTasteBeenWho
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
LiveLaughNeighborsTurnMakeOur
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
LoveSufferingPlaceNothingBeen
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
LoveGirlNowNow And ThenLittle
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
SelfWildWhereSureConcernedDear
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
QuickComeLikeReasonsHow
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