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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Quote by Jane Austen about admiration, imagination, love, moment

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

Quote by Jane Austen about happiness

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Quote by Jane Austen about nothing, mind

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Quote by Jane Austen about man, people

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

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Quote by Jane Austen about suspicion, woman

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

Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, affair, money, contentment

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

Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, affair, money, contentment

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Quote by Jane Austen about man

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

Quote by Jane Austen about sport

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

Quote by Jane Austen about sport

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

Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, love

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Quote by Jane Austen about silence, politics

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Quote by Jane Austen about friendship, man

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Quote by Jane Austen about education, world

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Quote by Jane Austen about marriage, chance, happiness

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.

Quote by Jane Austen about nature, people, human imperfections, being

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Quote by Jane Austen