“We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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Business, you know, may bring you money,
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
Category: men
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To sit in the shade on a
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for
“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
Category: women
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Men have had every advantage of us
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
Category: education
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A large income is the best recipe
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
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Give a girl an education and introduce
“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.”
— Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
Category: education
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