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- Jane Austen: English writer
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Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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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.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters -
I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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