Quotes about austen, page 11
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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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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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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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.
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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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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