Quotes about austen, page 7
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen in from a letter to her niece (18 November 1814)
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Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
Jane Austen in Emma
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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