Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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• Jane Austen:

  I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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  Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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  There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

• Jane Austen:

  What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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  It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

• Jane Austen:

  We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

• Jane Austen:

  The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stup

• Jane Austen:

  Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated

• Jane Austen:

  The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often withou

• Jane Austen:

  Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.