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Results of search for Author: Jane Austen - Page 1 of 10 Showing results 1 to 10 of 95 total quotations found.
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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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 (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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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.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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