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Jane Austen Quotes

» Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. ''And what are you reading, Miss -- -?'' ''Oh! it is only a novel!'' replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. ''It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ''; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

» A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

» Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

» Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

» It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

» Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.

» There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

» With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

» A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

» Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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