Jane Austen

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. ↗

— Jane Austen

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗

— Jane Austen

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. ↗

— Jane Austen

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ↗

— Jane Austen

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. ↗

— Jane Austen

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